[Dezakin]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Nicholai', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Dezakin', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('EnergyUnlimited', 'W')hat about 500% increase of food prices?
What about 500% increases of energy prices?

Not much will be left in your pocket after paying for that...

[VMarcHart]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Dezakin', 'W')hen the measure of poverty is not being able to afford the new game console, I dont worry excessively.

[Dezakin]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('VMarcHart', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Dezakin', 'W')hen the measure of poverty is not being able to afford the new game console, I dont worry excessively.

[VMarcHart]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Dezakin', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('VMarcHart', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Dezakin', 'W')hen the measure of poverty is not being able to afford the new game console, I dont worry excessively.

[Nicholai]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Dezakin', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Nicholai', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Dezakin', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('EnergyUnlimited', 'W')hat about 500% increase of food prices?
What about 500% increases of energy prices?

Not much will be left in your pocket after paying for that...

[threadbear]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Dezakin', '
') I dont worry excessively.

[mos6507]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('VMarcHart', '
')I need to take you on some of my trips.

[VMarcHart]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Nicholai', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Dezakin', 'W')hen the measure of poverty is not being able to afford the new game console, I dont worry excessively.

[Quinny]

So - is poverty relative?

[JJ]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Quinny', 'S')o - is poverty relative?

[Quinny]

I agree but surely lack of basic food and shelter is the indication of real poverty. One of the problems of relative poverty is that there is no line that can be easily drawn.


$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('JJ', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Quinny', 'S')o - is poverty relative?

[Dezakin]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Quinny', 'S')o - is poverty relative?

[Nicholai]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Dezakin', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Quinny', 'S')o - is poverty relative?

[Dezakin]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Nicholai', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Dezakin', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Quinny', 'S')o - is poverty relative?

[outcast]

That's because of the living standard differences. In most places in China you can get a decent meal for $1 or less, but in the US and Europe you can only get a bottle of water for it (or maybe a 20 minute phone call ).

Now, that being said many parts of america are not paradise and widespread poverty is a real issue in many of these areas. Here's from a guy who lived in LA from 1987-1997.

http://www.rjgeib.com/biography/la-days/la-days.html

Now if he didn't mention it directly, you would think he was describing a city in the third world: A few business districts, some pockets of wealth, and a vast economic wasteland full of poverty, and a absurdly high crime rate.

There's virtually no middle class in the city, since they moved out to the suburbs, leaving the rest of the city to rot. Not a pretty picture.

[VMarcHart]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Dezakin', 'N')ow I know theres anecdotes of American children who go hungry, but these are exceptionally rare cases. What you would call extreme poverty simply doesn't exist in the united states. Where it does, its almost allways due to criminal neglect or mental illness.

[vtsnowedin]

I've always been amused by the way MSM covers "Hunger in America'. They usually interview and film some worker in a food shelter that is an axe handle and ahalf across her butt and has a hard time walking between the shelves without scraping off the food cans. If you want to show me hunger in America interview sombody that has missed a meal or three.
If you could be anywhere on earth but had to start out dirt poor when you got there then the USA is the only choice. Just ask those Mexicans that are paying the coyotees to get them here.

[Dezakin]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('outcast', 'T')hat's because of the living standard differences. In most places in China you can get a decent meal for $1 or less, but in the US and Europe you can only get a bottle of water for it (or maybe a 20 minute phone call ).

[Ludi]

Many people don't know how to cook with inexpensive basic ingredients - their mothers never taught them, and they didn't have Home Ec in school. So if they can't buy the premade food they're used to eating, they go hungry. Ignorance is often an aspect of poverty - it isn't their fault, it's just the way they were raised. Of course the same is often true of people in higher income brackets - they don't know how to cook, they only know how to buy frozen pizza and Stouffers.

[EnergyUnlimited]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Ludi', 'M')any people don't know how to cook with inexpensive basic ingredients - their mothers never taught them, and they didn't have Home Ec in school. So if they can't buy the premade food they're used to eating, they go hungry. Ignorance is often an aspect of poverty - it isn't their fault, it's just the way they were raised. Of course the same is often true of people in higher income brackets - they don't know how to cook, they only know how to buy frozen pizza and Stouffers.