Erik Loomis's Layaway Plan

For realz, Herr Professor Doktor Loomis gets down and dirty on the poverty thing over this truly pretty maxi douchey article on store layaway programs.  Poverty, living in poverty, experiencing poverty is hardly ever discussed by the swells in the United States, not elected political "leaders", not the secure upper middle class civilians, not the tee vee millionaires.  Poverty is more widespread than commonly believed, even amongst the people in the bottom quintile, and most of the folks in the country who should or do know better have lots of great incentives to not really discuss or publicize this harsh reality.  Loomis is fine on his post, and for once, the comments below it are pretty okay, too, which is another extremely minor gratifying development in the society on this august day.  Poverty is now clearly a feature of the United States, but it is one which will undo the entire exercise unless it is ameliorated.  Right now, nobody except random assholes gives a flying fuck, but there is opportunity there for "leaders" who truly want to lead and politicians, maybe running in the Democratic party, who want to win elections and make a quantifiable difference in the lives of a majority of American citizens.  I'm not holdin' my breath, tho.