Ever since Reagan told the lie about the "Welfare Queens", the rise of poverty in the US has increased. During his presidency, street people appeared in droves. There never was a Welfare Queen. Another Reagan myth such as his "war stories" retold about the parts he did in movies.

The Neo-cons actually want poverty to occur. They want the separation between have and have-nots and they started the Class Wars. They intend to exploit poor people in this country by attacking them for being poor and giving them Walmart jobs to live on.

One of the biggest poverty aspects of the US today is its cultural and artistic poverty which is engendered by dumbed-down education and the crap on the media. The privatization of education will favor the rich and exclude the poor. Corporate sponsors are robbing the people of decent programming on the airwaves so that news becomes irrelevant and entertainment puerile.

L.H.,

There are cities in America where you can't go out at night if you are wise. Same deal, if you get robbed, mugged etc. the cops will ask what you were doing there at that time of night. Some are under the delusion that we live in a free country. Free to get killed if you happen to be at the wrong place at the wrong time.

Frank