thranx said:
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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.
I'm glad I don't live there because I know that their system doesn't work as well as the system that every other 1st World country has. You think America's is great? Give Canada's a spin. Or England's. America doesn't have the worst or even one of the worst systems but it is an abomination compared to compared to the rest of the 1st World and you don't have to live with it to know it. But at least you have the ACA now; that is a huge improvement from before. "HUUUUUUUGE!TM" -- Trademark, Donald Trump.
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.
Gang violence is a problem in the poor areas, right? Not so much of a problem in the utopian Middle Class? The question of this thread is What Makes Being Poor in the US Suck? Being closer to all that gang violence or living in the crosshairs would certainly suck. That makes America different from every other 1st World country--their poor areas aren't even close to being as militarized as the US's.
The worst off, most dangorous, poorest areas of the US all one thing in common, they are run by democrats.
Thank God. They have a prayer, after all. No wonder you go on to say that the "poor here have more chance for upward mobility"; the GOP certainly wouldn't have allowed that statement to even be conceptually possible.
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)
The poor have a much better shot in every other 1st World country. Wages have not kept up with the cost of living/inflation and income inequality has been steadily making the Middle Class more poor. This hasn't occurred to the same extent in other 1st World countries as it has in the US. The chance for upward mobility is much better elsewhere and it continues to worsen and worsen faster in the US.
Don't get me wrong--it's much better to be poor in the US than Mexico (there pretty much isn't any upward mobility there) but looking at developed nations exclusively, the US is the worst country to be poor in. The worst. Well. Okay. Russia is the worst (if you consider it to be a developed country or a 1st World nation, but that's the subject of debate right now).
At least the US isn't as bad as Russia. Way to set the bar high.
