People can and do screw themselves over through bad decisions everywhere; I've seen that happen. But in the US, more than in most developed countries, it's a lot easier to get into a situation through no fault of your own in which your standard of living is apparently tolerable, but you're well and truly boned if you get sick or injured.
Mostly I'm tired of people insisting that there is essentially no poverty in the US because the people who are supposedly poor can still buy cheap consumer goods at Wal-Mart.
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Date: 2004-12-22 11:58 pm (UTC)Mostly I'm tired of people insisting that there is essentially no poverty in the US because the people who are supposedly poor can still buy cheap consumer goods at Wal-Mart.