[UA] American attitudes and things

[James Knevitt]

On 1/10/07, Russell Rayburn <rusrayburn at gmail.com> wrote:

> If you're talking about the homeless, the view seems to be they're
> mostly substance abusers or mentally ill... again, two things which go
> against the idea of the "rugged individual".
>
> The other side of the "rugged individual" seems to be "I made good...
> why can't they?".

I find this a lot here in the US with the often-heard "why don't they
just get a job?" comment regarding the homeless.

It's also amusing that the largest consumers of welfare money in the
United States are southern states, who tend to vote more on the
conservative side of things.

This is another staple of the American image: trailer parks, filled
with welfare mothers and poorly-educated deadbeat dads.


-- 
James Knevitt
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"Two roads diverged in a wood, and I--
  I took the one less traveled by,
 And that has made all the difference."
 -- Robert Frost