Both chronic, long-term poverty and downward mobility from the middle class are in the same category of things that America likes not to think about.
“I worked for some very good people who have helped me along the way and actually enabled me to have the opportunity to be selected to join the Astronaut Corps.”
“My definition of an educated man is the fellow who knows the right thing to do at the time it has to be done. You can be sincere and still be stupid.”