Well, we have very different ideas about how life works. First of all, America's "poor" enjoy a higher standard of living than many people in Europe's middle class. Second, central/government control has failed wherever, however and whenever it has ever been tried (see Venezuela for an ongoing very current tragedy). I believe that with the exception of civil rights, Black Americans are worse off today than they were when Democrats first decided to "help" them with what has become in too many cases, generational welfare. I believe that having to work in order to eat is an essential part of the human experience. Whether it's the children of the rich or unemployed welfare recipients who have never had a job and who have no intention of ever getting a job, the results are the same. Actual accomplishment is the only path to genuine self-esteem. As for Snopes, they have been repeatedly found to be more interested in promoting the (failed) progressive agenda than in accurately evaluating fact