The American Coup

[Jay Vaughan]

>> It's this attitude that, if you're poor, it's probably your own  
>> fault,
>> that is totally alien to most Europeans.


To be fair, no other nation in the history of the world has allowed  
people to go from rags to riches as well as the US has.  It is true  
that it takes work, its true that it can be difficult, but the point  
is in the US system: it can be done.  So I can understand where the  
misguided blame-the-poor-for-being-poor comes from; with such amazing  
opportunities for wealth generation as the US used to provide, it does  
actually ring .. a little .. true, in my mind, that people shouldn't  
stay poor long unless they have a good reason.

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Jay Vaughan