35.9 million people in Poverty in the USA

international | anti-capitalism | news report Friday August 27, 2004 14:49 by uncle sam

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perhaps capitalism and the free market isnt the best solution for humanity!

In figures published today in most newspapers the news is that there are now 35.9 million people in the USA living below the poverty line.

A few weeks ago it was announced in Ireland that 700,000 people live below the poverty line.

Now Im not sure who draws these lines and where and how they are drawn but it does make you wonder about all these people proclaiming how free and civilised we are and how wonderful capitalism is and how the free market is the best system.

Capitalism and the free market(with its subsidies and special laws for industries that lobby hard) does seem to be a great way of making rich people richer, making the middle class work harder and longer because everything is so expensive, and screwing the lower classes who seem to pay most tax while the big companies get tax breaks and corporate criminals get away with massive scams, enron etc


Land of the brave and home of the free, falling.....

You sure do need to be brave to live in the usa these days, there is no safety net.