Decent Poverty Report: Poverty and Misery | CommonDreams.org

In his book "The Birth of Christianity" John Dominic Crossan makes a clear distinction among the social levels in an agrarian economy that is being urbanized and exploited by a commercial empire. The crucial level of distinction is when the peasant farmer goes so far into debt that he loses his land and becomes a tenant farmer and day laborer with total insecurity on the way to being pushed further and further down to the level of being "expendable".

Its the difference between poor and being desperate. As more and more of us go further into unemployment, debt, foreclosure and homelessness, it this not happening here? History tell us that peasant revolutions can happen. The peasants lose, but they happen.

Decent Poverty Report: Poverty and Misery | CommonDreams.org:

"Poverty itself, the absence of money to spare, is not the enemy, Goodman told us. We should be more precise and define the problem as economic insecurity, the threat of utter destitution, the constant specter of misery and ruin. If America could eliminate or substantially reduce that threat, for millions of people-say, the threat of homelessness, foreclosure, or eviction-then living here in poverty would be tremendously improved, and suffering greatly diminished. I"