America's own Third World

I am sorry, if you have been poor all  your life, and you have 8 kids, I no longer feel bad for you.  You are not very bright!  I am almost wondering the statistics on this, because I think the lower class is growing simply because they are out reproducing any other class.  This is by no way science, but you see it in all communities, it doesn't matter race, black, hispanic, white, if they have more than 5 kids, 9 times out of 10 they are dirt poor. 

I think greatter access to birthcontrol and sexual education might help put a dent in this madness!

It's funny how Americans will give aid in the BILLIONS to other countries and we won't even give a single poor woman in the ghetto a toaster.

We'll step over the homeless right here at home, but give MILLIONS to the poor abroad. 

The hollywood movie stars will step over a child that need adopting at home, but go to Africa and adopt a baby there.

Aren't we great people.

I don't know any of these peoples' situations personally, except what little details they have given us, but most of them seem to have brought poverty upon themselves.  Having 8 kids when you know you are going to be disabled your entire life is ridiculous!  As is staying where your "friends and family" are, in a town of only a couple hundred or thousand, when you know damn well that there are no jobs there!  With the exception of the sick, homeless man, who actually travels to find work,  the rest of these people are just making excuses.  And I say this as a liberal.  I am sick of the excuses made in this country for not having to support yourself.

I know times are tough, but eventually we are going to have to cut people off.  We can't support everyone all the time, especially people who refuse to make sacrifices (like relocating or having less children) to better their life.

What a sad comment on the state of affairs in what used to be the greatest country in the world.

Just look at us now...despised by the rest of the world for our foreign policies.

Basically broke! Actually even worse than that. Our entire government operates on borrowed money that we have no way of knowing how we will ever pay it back.

Millions without health insurance and many that have it, going broke trying to pay for it.

Unemployment that is at an all time high and the number in this article doesn't count all the people that have given up finding a job or used up their unemployment benefits.

The Middle Class is now the working poor.

Greed so rampant in our businesses it's just sickening!

A political system that's corrupt, ineffective and so wasteful it makes you want to puke.

And don't tell me to leave if I don't like it, because I spent my entire life working to make this country a better place and a better life for my family and I'm staying right here to voice my disgust for the way it's been destroyed. After all, isn't that what the thousands of soldiers that have died all over the planet were fighting for...our freedoms?

Yet we still have famous hollywood actors begging for our $$'s on tv commercial's to send overseas. Whatever happened to taking care of our own first?! Wow what a concept.

Want to get "the poor" working. Insist that to get their unemployment  they have to show up each day witout fail at the unemployment office where they are formed into work gamgs and sent throughthe city with brooms, mobs, bags, pick up th gargage, scrape off the graffitti, an dsweep and mop the streets. Six hours a day 6 days a week. In the winter they get snow-shovels and brooms to clean up the snow.  Work prgrams planting flowers in parks and beautifying the country.

In four weeks you'll cut the unemployed poor in half.   Make sure the orders are only given in Englsih and you'll find out amazing that most illegals have learned English in record time.

Disciplinary problems simply lose their check. Extreme disciplinary problems lose their check forever and are sent to a re-education camp.  Someplace like Magadan or Chelyabinsk.