The Impovershed Few

The Impoverished Few A young boy walks through the mud bare-footed towards his one room shack. He opens the waterlogged door to find his young mother feeding his eighteen month old sister cold beans. He walks towards the kitchen, which is really just a three-legged table, a lawn chair and a stove, and scoops the remaining beans from the stove onto a plate for himself. He gives his mother a kiss on the cheek and …

…understand that there is poverty out there, and that there are things that he can do about it. William Pitt once said “Poverty is no disgrace but it is damned annoying.” Galbraith answered that with “In the contemporary United States, it is not annoying but it is a disgrace” (247). The leaders of today should help diminish the poverty level from a disgrace to non-existent. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **Bibliography** A world of Ideas 5th edition Lee A. Jacobus--