Reply #19: Yes and no, Rush [View All]

[HEIL PRESIDENT GOD]

In a country where you can find $300 worth of warm, fresh pizza in a dumpster, not as one lucky find to tell your friends about, but every single day at the same dumpster, no one is as poor as, say, a middle-class Somali.

However, there are numerous places in my state (California) where indigenous people from Mexico and Central America live exactly as they did in their home countries (building reed huts, etc.) There is "white" poverty in Appalachia and rural black poverty in the south comparable to this.

In my opinion what impoverishes the poor of this country more than anything else is their disenfranchisement. By that I don't just mean voting or not; I mean that they are looked on as an anomaly, as abnormal people, as less than full citizens, as a thing to be commented on by fat slobs like Rush.

Within their own countries, the poorest people in the world endure nothing like this. A campesino in Mexico is not only a full citizen and a normal person; the elites at least verbally honor him as the backbone of the nation. Here, listening to the news, you would think it was suits who did all the work.

I think I've said enough.