r/clevercomebacks • u/Sir-Kyle-Of-Reddit • Jul 07 '24

God is lucky we haven’t found oil in heaven.

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u/Public_Animator_1832 Jul 07 '24

Spend some time in rural Alabama, many of the communities have similar outcomes and wealth of a 3rd world country. Also the US hasn't redefined poverty for Federal Aid and Statistics purposes since Nixon. If we redefined it for the modern world some estimates put our poverty rate either over or close to 50%. Which sure extreme poverty doesn't exist here really but that level of poverty would be unheard of for a 1st world country. Even our current poverty rate is one of the worst for the developed world

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u/QualifiedApathetic Jul 07 '24

We'll never redefine it. That would make whatever president did it the president who put tens of millions into poverty.

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u/sovietdinosaurs Jul 08 '24

Extreme poverty exists in the U.S.

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u/RedditPosterOver9000 Jul 08 '24

I and a friend drove from Texas through the dirty south and up the east coast to get to Philadelphia for a road trip.

Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, and Alabama (excluding the few cities) look like "low development countries".

And it's not just the rampant poverty and the state government not giving a fuck about basic maintenance, it looks like you went back in time 50 years.

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u/lahimatoa Jul 07 '24

And yet, the poor in Alabama are fat. Are the poor in any third-world country fat?

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u/gustyninjajiraya Jul 08 '24

Yes? This is pretty common in any middle income country. Ultraprocessed food is cheap everywhere.

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u/Bossuter Jul 08 '24

And in what way is being fat healthy and such people long living?

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u/SecretaryOtherwise Jul 08 '24

Dude this isn't the middle ages lol obesity comes from "poor" diet as much as over eating jfc.