Why are you judging me LH? All I said was Ortega is a commie and his buddy bud, Ahmadinejad is an asshole that is building his own empire with terrorisim while shouting down with American imperialisim.

Can you judge people by the company they keep?

And I said that you like to glorify the likes of Ortega, Castro, Chavez and "former Marxists". If you think that is good then why are you offended? You should bask in the praise.

Don't you wish we had politicians like this in North America?. Hell No. You can have all you want though. Matter of fact, you can have all of them.

Is this how Socialisim works are just a myth?

An Introduction to Poverty in Canada

...In Canada, people suffer deeply not because the necessities of life barely exist for the population at large -- the state of affairs in many Third World countries -- but because an unequal distribution of income blocks access to Canada's abundance. Poverty in Canada is a matter not of starving but rather of begging for food at food banks and shelters. It is the result of an unequal distribution of riches rather than a lack of riches....
...Aside from a small percentage of the poor population who are living at a bare subsistence level or below, most poor Canadian individuals or families suffer the effects of continual deprivation: a relentless feeling of being boxed in; a feeling that life is dictated by the requirements simply of surviving each day. In this way of life there is no choice, there is no flexibility and, if something unexpected happens -- sickness, accident, family death, fire or theft, a rent increase -- there is no buffer to deal with the emergency. Life is just today, because tomorrow offers no hope.

It is perhaps easiest to comprehend what a day in a life of poverty is like by converting a typical poverty income into a daily dollar amount. Survey information for 1991 indicates that, for an average poor urban family consisting of two adults and two children (and updating for increases in the cost of living to 1994), the daily dollar amount available to each family member is $14.60 (amounting to $21,300 annually). Using daily per-person expenditure estimates based on the Department of Agriculture's Thrifty Nutritious Food Plan ($4.75), Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation data for shelter costs ($7.16) and Montreal Diet Dispensary estimates for clothing ($1.22), the daily cost of bare essentials for survival comes to $13.13.

Out of the remaining $1.47 per person per day, families need to pay for personal care items, household needs, furniture, telephone, transportation, school supplies, health care and so on. There is no money for entertainment, recreation, reading materials, insurance, or charitable or religious donations.

The daily-dollar conversion makes it easy to understand why poor families must cut into their budget for essentials why they must rent substandard housing; why they move often in attempts to save rent; why they purchase poor-quality food with little freshness or variety; why they must supplement their food budget with trips to food banks; why they own a minimum selection of mainly used clothing.

For the poor family, living on $14.60 per person per day is not an exercise in the imagination. It is reality, day after day and with no relief in sight....."