The Economic Diversity.

The Plight of the Poor

I took time to travel across this great nation, US of A with my daughter, we had a wonderful time together. Something every family, rich or poor should investigate. 
 Not to our surprise we stopped at different neighborhoods along the way. One incident in New Orleans caught my daughter's attention. A store where merchandise prices were not displayed, hence the cashier claimed he had them all stores in his head. Well, this was not a mom and pap store, it was a major store in a a very populated area. We decided to ask why, the pompous cashier, with arrogant attitude, rudely stated, if we don't like it, we should take our business somewhere else; or report to judicial system. It just happened a police officer was in the same store, the cashier turned and directed our question to the officer, who mockingly laughed and said, it was the cashier's store, and it was his right to decide the prices. We made one purchase there, took it to another store where prices were displayed to compare, and the markup was 200%.
The poor have neither the income nor political power to hold anyone accountable for meeting their needs--they are political and economic orphans. The rich-country public knows little about what is happening to the poor on the ground in struggling countries. The wealthy population mainly just wants to know that "something is being done" about such a tragic problem as world poverty. The utopian plans satisfy the "something-is-being-done" needs of the rich-country public, even if they don't serve the needs of the poor.~Arnold Kling
 It has been this way for a long time, while we complain about the state of our economy, we have places like this taking from the poor just to enrich themselves. My daughter and I decided that, while traveling again, we would avoid Raceway 919, where the cashier store all prices in his head.