Comments below:
> Arlo stated to SA August 23rd:
>
> But money is on what you say, "something else must
> be going on".
>
> SA replied:
>
> Could it be the impression that government cares?
> These governments
> attempt to help their citizens get their basic needs
> and medical
> care. Could it be in the attempt, just having that
> loud voice
> declared throughout the country that we care and
> will try to help,
> and then 'things' visibly happen that people find
> this caring and
> visible follow through on this attempt to care -
> soothing and
> helpful. It is this support attempt. Is that all
> we need, a big
> part of what we need, a small part of what we need,
> or not what we need?
>
> Ant McWatt comments:
>
> As an educated guess, I think the UK's more
> established welfare state
> (despite the ravages of Thatcherism) takes the edge
> off the level of social
> inequality found in the US. As I noticed in Morgan
> Spurlock's excellent
> Thirty Days TV series (where, for one program/me he
> lived on the minimum
> wage for a month) it is a relatively low minimum
> wage level together with a
> lack of an NHS in the US which is the critical
> "killer" (often quite
> literally) for working class American people and
> their standard of living.
> As Platt keeps reminding us, the US does have better
> standards in many
> medical specialisations than somewhere like the UK
> but if you can't afford
> these treatments in the first place then they're
> worse than useless.
>
> Best wishes,
>
> Anthony
This was the point I was hoping we would get to.
How safe do people feel in these conditions? Trying
to live off of minimum wage where health care can't be
afforded. How many problems do these people have, and
on top of these problems, with a sense of NO caring
support by the community, their housing, clothing, and
food is difficult to come by? Giving is a very, very
old way of life.
SA
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