The $ factor.

I thought I had posted it here, but I only sent it out as a tweet:
"40% of my patients problems could be greatly improved, if not completely cured, by $35,000."

(I tweet @therapistmumble, but it's hardly worth following because I tweet about once a month).

On the front page of today's NYT "Review: section is an article by Moises Velasquez Manoff (that's a name for the new world) which gives a lot of research support to the concept that the poor suffer in many ways -- health, longevity, depression, etc, much more than people who are financially comfortable.

http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/07/27/status-and-stress/?_r=0

Now, to most of you this probably comes as a "Duh!"

But, unfortunately, too many people in this gold ol' U.S. of A. seem not only aware of that fact, but happy about it. We are getting back to where we were in 1964, of blaming the victim, and using the poor to make the rich feel better.

This is not a prescription for the long-term success of any society.