In America our "poor" can be considered "impoverished" while living in a multi-room dwelling with heat and air conditioning; have a cellular telephone; an automobile; have a refrigerator and are GIVEN food to put in it...for free; can recei...ve the best medical care the world has to offer. Our "poor" live better than the middle & upper classes in many, many nations of the world. All b/c of an open-markets economic structure that established a standard of living many in other nations cannot fathom.

Our "poor" are allowed to hitch their caboose onto the tail end of our economic train and let the producers shovel all the coal & pull them down the tracks. And now many are decrying this as unjust and unfair b/c some of those producers on the locomotive end of the train have accumulated 'too much coal', much more than those at the caboose end. These fools are actually calling for the dismantling of the capitalistic system and redistribution of the coal from the front to those at the rear.

If they succeed (and, make no mistake about it, they currently are) what does the train do the next time it encounters a steep hill?