This is absolutely the story of the American ideal. We're a nation of Horatio Algers -- the quintessential "rags to riches" story. Poverty, in the US, is a per

This is absolutely the story of the American ideal. We're a nation of Horatio Algers -- the quintessential "rags to riches" story. Poverty, in the US, is a personal shame, not a systemic failure. The successful end result of centuries of propagandizing in favor of the Individual, and against organizing. We're a fractured people, to our detriment.