Charles ...not everyone looks to the government to pay all of their bills and supply them with every one of life's little pleasures ...pay their power/rent/daycare/buy their food/day care/health care.  They also don't value their own lives based upon what the government thinks its value is. When rural people fall on hard times they don't start crying for another government program to take care of them ... they look at each other and they look first at themselves first. Secondly, rural people may seem poor to a stranger looking from outside but most of those families think they live blessed lives and even find a way to give to other people. Poverty is a state of mind and people are responsible for their own happiness ...not the government. Don't you see how the left uses black people every 2 years then kick them to the curb in favor of the next up and coming victim class ...Hispanics!