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Originally Posted by Manx
But really, the analogy is nothing more than an illusion of scale.
Even with the most exorbitant lifestyle, housing costs, food costs and other basic necessities are readily afforded by the top percentile of this country, even if their taxes were raised.
The lowest percentile, even with second or third jobs, cannot afford basic housing, food and necessity costs without social assistance.
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Or so they, and what Walter Williams calls the "poverty pimps" would have you believe.
I'm trying not to be insulting here, and you're certainly not the only person whose thinking aligns with your last sentence, but I consider that sentence to be racist or xenophobic, or both.
It conveys the message that minorities/immigrants/whatever can't possibly be successful on their own, and it implies that anyone who rose from such circumstances couldn't have done it on their own merit.