Plenty of poor Brazilians, however, admire their rich, as do Americans makes clear with who gets elected, what's the agenda. Many in the middle/upper classes direct their ire instead at the poor. “Some of us, like you and me, have to work,” can be heard in the offices of Brazil and factory floors in the new American South. "I work and they sit on their ass, have babies, do or sale dope, steal or collect welfare".