Reply #93: My mom shops at Wal-Mart not because of the [View All]

[ikojo]

outstanding quality of their products and service, but because she is POOR. She depends upon her social security as her income. They have cheap generic drugs that she can afford as well as cheaper food. It may not be the best quality but it IS food.

My oldest sister shops at Wal-Mart for the same reason. She has one kid at home and her lazy good for little husband has not worked in the last five years, so it's her income that barely pays the bills.

MOST Americans are struggling mightily to barely get by. We don't hear those stories on the TV because of a cultural streak running a mile wide that holds people are poor because they made bad choices and didn't pull themselves up by their bootstraps. Let's also not forget the Calvinst belief, still strong in many parts of the US that holds one is poor because one has fallen out of God's favor.