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That depends on what you consider to be poor. In the United States you can own your own home, have a car that is worth up to $4500.00 and have thousands of dollars in the bank (there is a limit there though).

To many that is beyond their reach. To an Ethiopian, this person was rich beyond their dreams before they got welfare.

The problem is that welfare in America has become an alternative to working rather then a temporary method of survival for some.

We are a rich enough country that we should not allow people that can not work to starve, but we have created people that are now dependent on this system for living (fairly well).

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