Well as it happens the haves and the have nots are drifting further and further apart, according to a recent poverty analysis.

“Based on the latest available U.S. census data from 2005…almost 16 million Americans live in "deep or severe poverty" defined as a family of four with two children earning less than 9,903 dollars.”

USA Today

Once again we hear the tired argument that the gulf is widening between the so called rich and the poor. And naturally evil corporations and their obscene profits are to blame. It only stands to reason that record profits at Exxon could explain why a someone earning less than 10 thousand dollars a year would attempt to raise a family.

Surely Exxon’s profitably are to blame for the unbelievable stupidity of so many Americans who disregard their education by dropping out of school, surely Exxon is to blame for so many teenage girls having children, surely Exxon bares the responsibility for so many irresponsible people doing drugs and refusing to develop job skills and leave them permanently trapped in a cycle of poverty. Exxon and other profitable companies like Microsoft, Wal-Mart, etc…should be nationalized by the federal government and their profits distributed freely to the idol, the indolent and the idiotic, the very people who account for the poverty levels in this country.

So what’s the solution…well aside from punishing corporate America, the government must do more, the government must expand social programs and other wasteful entitlement programs, after all whenever people have a problem only the state has the wherewithal to save us from ourselves.
http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2007-02-25-us-poverty_x.htm