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thranx on 11 October 2015
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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.

 

If you havent lived here and don't how it works don't commment. Everyone in the US has access to health care and can go when sick.

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.  

The dangourous areas of the US all have one thing in common, gang violence, and massive amounts of black on black crime. They have a culture that has to integrate into american society. everyone else is fine.

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.

The worst off, most dangorous, poorest areas of the US all one thing in common, they are run by democrats.


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. 


I doubt it. The poor here have more chance for upward mobility than in almost any other country (i believe the netherlands and dutch countrries may have better, but lets face it, they always seem to be at the top of every chart, damm those dutch, but they also dont seal with a lot of the issues the size of a country like the US would, and the US is still one of the only countries with an open immigration policy)