Living Poor and Uninsured in a Red State

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Yes, the GOP is very good at attaining it's goals.  To a right-winger, being a poor is WRONG and this is the just reward. 

Don't be a silly billy. Business always needs a workforce, and that tends to work best when the workers are alive.

No need for them to live very long, though.  Most of the American work force is redundant to their owners now anyway, as they own fresh populations in Asia.

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Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein once said that American-style capitalism is excellent at producing wealth and poor at distributing it.

Actually the reason capitalism appears to be 'excellent at producing wealth' is that it is consuming people.  Its net result is in reality not positive or productive at all.

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Nobody is both so poor and so lacking in social connections that they can't manage a brief trip from Texas to NM.

You're quite wrong there, lots of people can't afford a meal or shelter much less a trip from state to state.