Jay Honeck wrote:
[sorry, missed OP on this paragraph]
There are a lot of kids (and adults) in the United States seeing hardship and
high unemployment. They just don't happen to be yours. The middle class is
disappearing in the United States.

[back to Jay]
No, there are a lot of uneducated parents (who were themselves raised
by substandard parents) raising kids who are seeing hardship and high
unemployment. Many of these kids are being raised in broken homes by
single parents. Counter-intuitively, nowadays many are single parents
by choice, despite single-parenthood being the single most reliable
predicter of poverty.

I would like to point out that in the Denver area, when teenagers
are looking for a summer or part-time job now, they are asked if
they are bi-lingual in english and spanish.

America is full of opportunities for those who wish to take advantage
of them. No one here needs to suffer -- and the vast majority do not.