We had oatmeal for breakfast. Everyone in the family eats it a little differently. The youngest likes cinnamon sugar and butter. The oldest likes peanut butter, cinnamon sugar, and brown sugar in hers. Mom likes walnuts and chokecherry syrup. I had peanut butter and brown sugar. Picture a table with all that food on it. Does that sound like a table in an impoverished household
My point? If this is poverty, I think the rest of the world would like to be impoverished the way we are in America. The World Bank figures that 1.4 billion people worldwide live on $1.25 or less a day. Based on taxes last year, we were nearly 40 times that limit.
I think that we are blessed.
Here is a random video.
I agree! Remember when Y2K was the "Next big disaster" that was to come? I remember these people on TV that were stocking up on huge amounts of toilet paper because they figured that it would be good trading stock after Y2K. Well, I mentioned this to some people in India and they all enjoyed a good laugh about that! Most people there (along with most other people in this world) get along fine with out TP and have forever. Even though I too have been below the poverty level most years of my life, I've always enjoyed the finest of toilet papers! ;-} Toilet paper in India several years ago sold for $1 US per roll. That, as you stated, is nearly a days wages for most people in this world. To be able to splurge on such unnecessary items certainly shows that we are not truly in poverty.
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