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@Polkatronixx
Well, I think one of the biggest crimes you can commit in the USA is to be poor. There is a general disdain for the poor, and a feeling that people who are poor are poor because they either don't work as hard as they could or for some other reason (basically, they 'choose' to be poor). This is a widely accepted belief. I don't know WHY it is, but I wonder if it may, in small part, come from the so-called 'Protestant work ethic' of our founders (the puritans and others).