[JoeAltmaier]

Hypothetical lives often are for very conservative people who make up reasons why nothing will help. Moving for a poor single person can be as simple as hitchhiking or, for $90 more, taking a Greyhound somewhere.

And 'wealthy' is relative. There's always somebody better off. And you can contact people all over the world these days, with something called the Interweb.

[jamesroseman]

I'm really not trying to say people below the poverty line can't function or move cities, what I'm saying is a lot of people can't do a lot for financial reasons and it's unhelpful advice to suggest things like the parent. A lot of people in this country are in financial situations they didn't put themselves in that keep them there implicitly.