New Facebook Trend:Visually Bragging About Poverty

When I was a kid people didn’t brag about how poor they were, mostly because it was something to be ashamed of. Do you think that Pollock family down by the train tracks that wore burlap sack shirts to school came bragging about how poor they were? Do you think their father went to the town park and held up signs fussing about how the rich people in town were to blame for him and his family living in poverty? No.