In our mind, America is always considered as the symbol of wealth. Nevertheless,
we should
not
just pay attention
to one side of
the society
. And
we
need to
focus on
the other side of it. Every country has its social problems, so does America. Although
America is the richest country in the world and has the best conditions to provide free
medical
service
to
the
entire
people,
the
government
of
USA
doesn
’
t
offer
it
to
all
citizens. And many managers of companies use their power to snatch the greed of the
top executives. Further
more, drug
is a
major offense
in poor communities and some
ethnic
minority
people
have
been
involve
in
street
drug
dealing
instead
of
border
smuggling. But the most serious social problem as I am concerned is the poverty
.
Gregg
Easterbrook
has published
his book,
The Progress Parabox(2003),
whose
secondary
title
is
,
”
How
life
gets
better
while
people
fell
worse.
”
The
author
thinks
that
many Americans confound what they
need and what they
want. They will
never
care about whether
they
need the
new products or
not and buy them as
soon as
they
are
put
into
the
market.
For
the
credit
card
is
very
convenient,
it
is
easy
to
make
Americans owe a lot of debts: everyone owes about 3500 dollars in average. A part of
their spiritual and financial stress derives form this. This blindness causes the waste of
citizens
’
wealth, and makes the poor poorer.
There are a great number of Americans lead a poor life. And the majority of them
are
ordinary
people
who
are
always
working
hard
to
earn
more
money
to
support
a
family. In
the United States, a
family
of
four with an annual
income of about 13,000
dollars or less is identified as living in poverty and in need of help, for the reason that
the
lowest
salary
made
by
the
government
is
too
low:
5.15
dollars.
If
the
average
lowest
salary
of
the
whole
America
increases
to
10
dollars,
this
problem
will
be