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To: abuelita who wrote (78227)	8/22/2011 5:57:22 PM
From: Maurice Winn	3 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 217912

Tongue only partly in cheek Rose. The overwrought bleating about "the poor" does annoy me. It's so often hypocritical. It's also ignorant. In the political sphere, the politicians are cynically using poor people to feather their own nests. The communist "egalitarian" bosses of USSR and China did not experience poverty but they forced it on everyone else. Jon Stewart did in fact ignore the fact that low income people still have income and plenty of it compared with most people around the world and through human history including fairly recent history in the USA. Read some of Thomas Sowell's articles about "poor". He knows about poor, up close and personal. People say really stupid things such as "poor people can't afford good food". In fact, the best food is almost free. Barley is cheap. Potatoes too. Onions, cabbages, and all sorts. Millions of people aren't breaking into the USA because they hope to increase their poverty levels. They know life is great over there by comparison and they might even score a $2 million free citizenship as well. No wonder hordes are crowding in to share in the "poverty". The problem being poor is mainly envy, greed and governments. Mqurice