pauperhood

I charge the "compassionate conservatives" for further victimizing the American public and the "party-of-the-people" Democrats for allowing this travesty of an "insurance program" to pass out of Congresss and onto the backs of those who have already been reduced to pauperhood and who find their meager income looted once again.

The Great Medicare Maze 2005

“I’ve become so used to the good life that I can’t imagine going back to pauperhood,” said Kunzru.

Kunzru — The M. Night Shyamalan of Literature? : Edward Champion’s Reluctant Habits 2004