Bottom line: How crisis sends middle America to queue for hand-outs

Considered a country of great contrasts, America is witnessing a shocking social shift as the financial crisis forces millions below the poverty line. RT's Cedric Moon investigates how citizens once considered middle class are joining America's working poor.

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• Washington DC poor
• American poverty
• healthcare reform
• poverty line US
• Obama economy

[Chancellor521]

America is suffering because Americans have tolerated grave injustices.

It's so obvious that 911 was an inside job yet Americans continue to buy the official lie. A lie which was used to start 2 unjust wars and a possible 3 third unjust war.

When you tolerate unjust acts against others, that same injustice will make its way back to you. It's that simple.

[frontier1701]

I cant believe I have to go to "Russia Today" to get my real American news!!!!

[moistfaucet]

I have been poor for so long until i am immune to it. I don't mind not having a house or car or all fancy item. as long as i got food 3 times a day i am happy.

[Alexlougheed]

I want to let you folks know how humiliating it is to work as a contract security guard during the day kicking vagrants out of various premises only to line up at the soup kitchen along side the various vagrants I had to personally remove. How humiliating it is to have to share a meal with the ones I kicked out only hours earlier and how humiliating it is that they too recognize me even when I sit sharing a meal with them at the same table out of uniform.

[flagship21]

i am a bum

[tarmac2001]

The average American working only 36 hours weekly and earning over $50,000 yearly. LOL, where do they get these figures from; "The Wall Street Crook Daily", not an actual newspaper that exists, but if it did, that would be an appopiate name for a new buisness publication here in the U.S.

[dobberdoss]

Russia anyone? America is screwed

[theabomation]

Corporate America has took-en over wall street and has wage an war on the middle since the Regan Administration...

[emmy1cat]

Americans are suffering because they really believe that one can buy happiness with another's money. All it really buys is votes for the ruling elite and the political class. Anything for power. So, we the people get free candy, and now the bill has come due. Sugar Daddy politics as only Liberals of all stripes can propound. All one need do is look at the "War on Poverty 50 years and a trillion dollars later and all we have to show for all this free candy is urban decay.

[unclepete813]

wait until next year you sheeple. you better wake up. this is the end of a cycle. means end of this world as we know it. get your concious right and you can see tru all these illusions. if not you will perish here. dont believe in your government or churches. they all run by the vatican. and you worshipping the devil. they reverse everything in this world to fool people. #13 is good not bad luck. for example. wake up this is the end.

[ComradePatriot]

These laid off workers can always get work at a porno studio making porn.

[grimwhitescar]

have eny of you been to afgan because you pleople are clueless