usa is in much more than hard times my friend, you are old and out of touch with reality of what is really going on.
You're out of touch not only with reality but what the rest of the world is like. America isn't what it use to be and is only getting worse but compared to the majority of the world we live like kings. Part of our problem is that we live such cushy, self-indulgent lives. How poor can a country be when one of our biggest problems is obesity? Do you know what one of the leading causes of death is in the world. Ranking either number one or number two? It's diarrhea. And that's due to just not having access to clean water.
Call me old. Fine. That just means I can compare to what I had as a teenager and what teenagers have now. For a middle class family it's just par for the course that they buy their kid a car. Cell phones, computers, NEW clothes. I use to work part time at Vitamin Shopped and it was their parents who were buying all their supps. Spending hundreds of dollars. Forget about kids buying AAS and HGH over the net. It never even crossed my mind that my parents would buy me a car or protein powder. Do you have any idea how so called poor people live in this country? Yes, I'm old. That's why I can compare generations. You sound like a spoiled cry baby that doesn't have a clue what real hardship is like. You come up short at the end of the month and can't afford your HGH or all you can eat shushi and you cry like a baby that the world is coming to an end. You take for granted the luxuries you have and were born into. Wash some dishes by hand and hang dry your laundry for a change. Turn off your car's a/c and roll the windows down. Push a lawn mower if they even have those now. I say again, you have no idea, not the slightest clue, what real hardship is like.
After I visit my relatives in the Philippines I come back and kiss the ground of the this country. We may be falling and China rising, but right now we still rule this planet.
Here's how the poor live in America:
Forty-three percent of all poor households actually own their own homes. The average home owned by persons classified as poor by the Census Bureau is a three-bedroom house with one-and-a-half baths, a garage, and a porch or patio.
Eighty percent of poor households have air conditioning. By contrast, in 1970, only 36 percent of the entire U.S. population enjoyed air conditioning.
Only 6 percent of poor households are overcrowded. More than two-thirds have more than two rooms per person.
The average poor American has more living space than the average individual living in Paris, London, Vienna, Athens, and other cities throughout Europe. (These comparisons are to the average citizens in foreign countries, not to those classified as poor.)
Nearly three-quarters of poor households own a car; 31 percent own two or more cars.
Ninety-seven percent of poor households have a color television; over half own two or more color televisions.
Seventy-eight percent have a VCR or DVD player; 62 percent have cable or satellite TV reception.
Eighty-nine percent own microwave ovens, more than half have a stereo, and more than a third have an automatic dishwasher.
