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When a significant number of people within any society or any Country become impoverished the plight of those people is an indication of how the people who run the Government of the particular Country have failed to provide for all its the people.

For example, when the potato famine struck the people of Ireland during the mid-nineteenth century the Government of the Empire of Great Britain did little or nothing to prevent the starvation of thousands of people who would have survived otherwise. As a matter of fact, the so called First Class members of that Country could care less if the lower classes within their society either lived or died. The lower classes were there for the purpose of doing the work of the upper class members of that society.

Royalty and the like lived a lifestyle that was the very best of what life had to offer to Humanity at that time. Raw sewage flowed in the streets and the odor that wafted in the streets of London would and did make the common masses truly sick at times, while the super rich lived far away from such filth truly safe within the walls of their majestic mansions.

The British military forces were traveling the globe in search of yet more riches to find and more lands to colonize for the Royal Family and a select group of greedy people. Shame on them. Commodities such as tea, sugar and spices from India were expensive and reserved of the people who could afford to indulge themselves. Most of which was kept under lock and key, to prevent their servants from use of those items.

The ordinary people survived by working in coal mines, building ships, growing food, military service, public service and otherwise kissing up to the higher classes for whatever they needed to stay healthy and alive. It is no wonder to me why so many of those ordinary people fled to the United States of America.

Speaking of the United States of America, can such a thing like that ever happen within that Country? Take a very good look at Detroit, Michigan and those other places where jobs are few and hard to find. The homeless are camping out within our city parks or are now living in a mobile home instead of the real house that they once owned.

The people who manage our banks lost their depositors' money, due to losses suffered in the stock markets World-wide. Yes, and economic conditions for us ordinary people get worse by the minute, as our Government gives billions of dollars to people who took away our jobs and employed cheaper labor within Foreign Countries.

We get bits and pieces of our truly serious situation but not one of the major news broadcast networks has told the entire story all at once and in the order of what has taken place during the last 40 years, which, in fact is the true reason why things are as bad as they are. People need honest and well paying jobs if they expect to survive within the United States of America. You see, the plight of our millions of poor people is something that our politicians are afraid to admit.

It seems that nothing less than riots in our streets, or a revolution will be required to capture the full attention of our politicians and the news media. Then again, maybe 164 years must pass before the real truth is given to those ordinary people. That is what happens when the majority is ignored in favor of those who can't get enough of what all of the World has to offer. End of story.

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