Gatekeeping poverty

O'REILLY: But let's get back to the poverty issue. We don't want to -- we're not diminishing the suffering that the poor people have.

DOBBS: Absolutely not.

O'REILLY: I mean, you go to any poor neighborhood -- I rode around South Carolina, interestingly enough, a couple of months ago. And you're looking at these shotgun houses and these people living in dilapidated -- and, yeah, inside, they probably have a few modern conveniences, but this is no day at the beach.

But there is a reason for poverty in America. There's almost always a reason attached to poverty. And it's not the capitalist system's fault. It's usually personal responsibility or something like that.

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O'REILLY: But again, we don't want to diminish the suffering of poor people.

DOBBS: Absolutely.

O'REILLY: It is intense in any country. But in capitalism, there are going to be poor people. There are going to be people who can't or won't compete. And that's just the system. [Fox News, The O'Reilly Factor, 7/20/11]

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