Just another problem with 'Murica

[abaris]

I've been to Poland, my step dad was from there. I know what it's like. I also have lived in Mexico, Chile and Argentina. Spent significant time in Peru and Columbia as well, I've seen real poverty and the real standard of living in the second world and there is an enormous gulf. You apparently don't even know that eastern europe has a lower standard of living then the US.

You don't know how to put things into perspective, do you? The whole of Poland has a lower living standard than Western Europe. The poor aren't that much worse off than the poor in America, compared to the overall living standard.

Social security and general healthcare anyone? Do the poor in America have access to that? In general?