"Why poor people tend to stay poor" In America right? And the perpetually poor since many people start off poor and move up (such as college graduates)?
If so, then there are a multitude of reasons. Ignorance of money, credit, everyday banking, etc. Reliance of government assistance without consequences. That is, no expectations or no punishment for bad behavior. A complicit government that does not hold people accountable for bad behavior or force people to move off of assistance. The proliferation of single parent families. The inadequacy of the public school system. Or maybe it's perfect adequacy at keeping people in their place. The consumerization of people who are not educated enough to fight off the continual onslaught of adds telling people what they need to be happy. The poor have been turned into buying machines who believe happiness starts at the wallet. The loss of a purpose or the search of purpose. That is, the loss of religion (I am not specifying a specific religion either). The loss of decent paying, low skill labor. That is, the destruction of manufacturing in our country. I tend to blame the unions, minimum wage, and government interference, while those on the other side will blame something else. Either way, the jobs aren't here anymore. The inability to plan for the future. That is, people can plan for two weeks down the road, let alone two years. No ability to see their current state. Some poor can't get out of the rut because they don't see the rut. They envision their life as it is and that it will always be that way. They don't understand that there can be a path to the other side for themselves or at least their children because they can't even see the other side. I grew up very poor. I was lucky in the sense that my public school was excellent. I got an outstanding education. We did not have cable so I didn't really get the media bombardment of adds. However, I did come from a single parent family who knew nothing about money or the value of an education. No one in my family ever attended college, let alone had a degree, before me, so education was not a concern in my family. There was no money envy because we didn't know anybody with money. Fortunately, there was no dependence on the government. We did not participate in government assistance programs so they never became a crutch. Basically, I see a lot of similarities between the US and the Roman Empire. We have a huge population of poor who are fed by the government and entertained by the arena (TV). Listen to current pop songs and the debauchery portraid in the songs would make Caligula blush. Nothing good can come of this. J - I am for doing good to the poor, but I differ in opinion of the means. I think the best way of doing good to the poor, is not making them easy in poverty, but leading or driving them out of it. In my youth I travelled much, and I observed in different countries, that the more public provisions were made for the poor, the less they provided for themselves, and of course became poorer. And, on the contrary, the less was done for them, the more they did for themselves, and became richer. - Benjamin Franklin ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:348757 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
