At home, growing up, we weren't really poor. We had everything we needed, we just didn't have what we wanted.
However, if we examine the Canadian scene closely enough, we can see signs of this physical and spiritual rot settling into a number of our Canadian urban centres with a troubling spill-over into many of our more rural areas.
It sounds really stupid, I hate making cosmic comments like this but, I just let it do what it wants to do.