You're Lucky To Be Poor Here-Part Two

I saw a picture recently that combined a photo of an Occupy Wall Street protester with a picture of poor folks in some African country. The obvious (and factual) point being that if you're going to be poor, hungry, unemployed, and homeless it's better to be that way in America than in many Third World countries.

Now if we were actually doing something meaningful to eradicate poverty in those desperately poor countries you might have a case for urging America's poor to be patient, but since we spend trillions waging war against less-developed nations and pittances addressing their physical needs that argument holds little weight. The truth is that those who make the argument that our poor are just whiners are themselves doing nothing either here or overseas to alleviate poverty and hunger. They are the ones waging class warfare on the powerless.

Every great social upheaval of the last hundred years has occurred in societies where income and wealth distribution has skewed massively to the few while the many sink further and further into hopelessness. That's already happened in America, it's been documented by study after study, elites are waging war on workers in state and national legislatures and the Occupy folks across this great land are to be ignored or scorned only at great peril.