I'm just guessing, but probably the only cure for poverty is work, which is why we need a sound energy policy!

Bubba doesn't have to be smart or well "edikated" to be greedy. As long as there are jobs available he'll go to work, for the most part, and snoop around for the best pay. In this way he progresses from Bubba to Middlebubba (that would be me )where he finds social programs stop and he's more or less on his own as a bona fide working American!

Wouter:

I don't know how things work in Europe, but here we are merchandised from birth to believe we need everything under the sun, I call it "capitalistic brainwashing"! So, we go in debt up to our eyeballs and work like hell to pay it all off, I call that the "great American indenture". Well, somewhere around age 50, while we are at our maximum earnings, we get it all paid off and I call that "the great American dream realized"!

All this works very well, as long as jobs are plentiful. Heretofore, we've had an abundance of cheap energy to fuel this rosey little scenario, but those days are rapidly growing to a close, which brings us full circle to why we need a sound energy policy! I'm sorry to be obtuse, but down here in bubba-land that's just how things are.