What Makes Being Poor in The United States Suck?

[johnsobas]

SuaveSocialist said:

"So what are the poor missing out on in the U.S that makes people from other countries so scared of being poor here?"

Well, for starters, compared to every other 1st World country, the American health care system is an abomination.  Everybody gets sick or injured sooner or later; I'd rather that happen in a country with good health care.

Plus there's the problem of rampant proliferation of firearms which makes the poorer areas far more dangerous than those of, well, just about every other 1st-World country out there.  Rather not catch a stray bullet and wind up at the mercy of the American health care system.  

And finally, the GOP basically tries to make your life harder just because your life was hard to begin with.  There's a party like this in every country, but the GOP have collectively lost their minds and that makes them deserving of distinction.  They'd surely block any effort to actually improve things for the nation's poor, if only out of spite.

It's better to be poor in the US than, say, Mexico, but of the 1st World countries, the US is the last one I'd want to be poor in. 

yes, i'm gonna trust a 14 year old from the UK telling us how things are in the US.