Poverty and being poor transcends time

But people in the United States, since Reagan was President, seem to have forgotten that.

A quote from the esteemed Dr. Samuel Johnson:

"Life is a pill which none of us can bear to swallow without gilding; yet for the poor we delight in stripping it still barer."


Apparently, we'll get a chance to remember all this, in a short time to come, what with the financial meltdown taking place lately.