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Originally Posted by Ike Bana
When it comes to the individual cost of survival in this country it's the poorest with the highest costs. Just look at food, clothing, housing, gas...all the staples. Where are those prices the highest? Where the lowest income families live. Which group provides the most warm bodies for this country's wars of economic opportunism and political legacy building? The poorest of Americans.
It costs the poor more to live than anybody.
This room cost $2,000 a month
You can believe it, man, it's true
Somewhere there's a landlord's laughing till he wets his pants...
- Lou Reed "Dirty Blvd."
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One shining example;
There are three 7-11s, a couple of independent convenience stores and several fast food joints within a half mile from my 'hood. Why? Section 8 housing a block over, that's why. Poor people, who can't afford to own a car, only shop at stores they can walk to. I see them all day long carrying small bags toward McDonald Manor, an apartment complex with few vehicles in the parking lot. (Section 8) The "food" is mostly junk and prices in the stores are ridiculous, but they get it, because the locals have little choice. Who in the hell is going to walk two miles to Food Lion or five miles to Walmart to carry everything all the way back in their arms? No one, that's who.
So, yes, being poor is expensive and unhealthy unless one lives somewhere where he can grow his own food.
Dave