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Originally posted by onetime2
After all aren't homes and cars significantly more expensive than they were in the 70's and yet we don't see too many people driving around in cars that are decades old or homes that are rotting to the ground?
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I don't mean to snipe, but maybe
you don't see too many. Try going to north Philly. You'll see plenty of decrepit row homes and those people who do have cars are driving rusting junkbuckets from the early 80s at best.
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Originally posted by Hwed
Heck, drive down a street in a poor neighborhood these days.... what do you see? A DSS dish on every roof and obese people talking on cell phones. We're hardly starving here. Our poor are pretty well off. 
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Compared to the poor in other nations, maybe. Our poor aren't living in shacks made out of sheet metal without running water or electricity. Things still aren't good for them.