BBC Shows Poverty in America: Poor America

half hour program shows a few families hit by unemployment, and kids etc.
Deanosays...

Having promoted this, I can see it's the typical lightweight Panorama look at a complex issue. Can't believe they repeated the same shots of decrepid buildings at the end!

notarobotsays...

Somehow the flag hanging from the tree in the tent city at the end made me think of this video and the history it tells:



Drachen_Jagersays...

Where's Quantum Mushhead? This is what happens when you slash taxes on the rich and corporations while cutting benefits and social programs.

Is that the country you want to live in?

Porksandwichsays...

It's amazing how much attention the Chinese Foxconn workers get and how little the US unemployed get. It's easiest to look at other countries and rage against the injustice than to look at your own and see you have no right as a nation to be dictating policy to other countries.

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