correct me if im wrong, but spending money helps the economy... what the problem?
42 million below poverty line... yea, i had a friend in school who was on food stamps, while i was in middle class home.
he had 2 brand new computers, and a plazma screen when we were still useing crts for our main tvs. excuse me if i cant have any sympathy for them.
there are degrees of poor you know... just because they are labeled poor, doesn't mean they are living badly, if that 42million were starving and on the verge of dieing, yea, sympathy... but i have none for people who were so unimportant where they work that they make minimum wage / got laid off. i expect no sympathy if the same happens to me, and god knows that if i actually starved to death, the world would move on, unaffected.
granted, i also don't think big company should be able to play rullet with money, and fold because they lost a bet. i have nothing against the insanely rich, its their money, but as a company, i have problems on how many of them spend it, and go over seas.