lucy24 - 9:49 pm on Jan 5, 2012 (gmt 0)

:: yawn ::

Remember all those Depression-era families loading up their belongings in their private cars and then driving off across country in their private cars in search of work? In the rest of the world, including western Europe, the very idea of a poor person-- as these folks unequivocally were-- owning private cars was simply unthinkable. You wouldn't even put the words into the same sentence.