Posted on 07/30/2018 8:04:54 AM PDT by rktman
One of them caught my attention and I could hardly believe my eyes. I had to read it a couple of time before the reality sank in.
Here it is, verbatim, with their underlining emphasis, not mine:
Could you survive poverty? The Society of St. Vincent de Paul will host a Community Poverty Simulation.
(It went on to note the date and location of this event and a contact number for those wishing to register to participate.)
This poverty simulation experience is designed to help participants understand what it might be like to be a part of a typical low-income family trying to survive month to month. It is a simulation, not a game. The object is to sensitize participants to the realities of life faced by low-income people.
Oh …
Talk about patronizing and insulting.
After I took a few moments to catch my breath, I realized these fools are serious in what they’re doing. In their jaundiced view of the world, they are convinced the people in their area are so privileged and selfish that they need to learn about poverty by pretending to be poor.
In other words, they can’t imagine what it would be like not having an income for rent or food or clothing for your children. I guess they think those people are not only “rich,” they’re stupid.
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Define poverty.
It is insulting. The entire Catholic Church is going tone-deaf at an astonishing rate.
Some of us have LIVED it. Trying to raise a family of four making $25K in a crappy job, etc. Most of us did not stay there.
Many of us not only survived poverty, but overcame it and even became wealthy. That is why we despise those for whom poverty is not only a permanent state, but a voluntary multi-generational one.
I agree. Many of us had financial struggles as young marrieds, or came from families in which money was tight.
Just because many of us are middle class, or upper middle class now, hardly means that we don’t understand poverty, or what it’s like to live in low income conditions.
I did the poor military, student, and low level state employee and somehow survived.
If I can do it, just about anyone else should.
I can define poverty. Grew up poor. Didn’t know it at the time because everyone around us was poor. My Grandma was also a food hoarder and had a large garden. She canned and ‘put away’ everything that came out of that garden so we never went hungry. We did have a lot of bread sandwiches for lunch though. We’d go home from school for lunch and if there was no beans or potatoes left from the night before we had mayonnaise or mustard sandwiches for lunch.
These people have no clue what poverty really is.
1. Move away from any family and friends who are bad influences and want to borrow every dollar you make.
2. Rent a cheap place.
3. Don’t have babies.
4. Move near your job. Work 2 jobs or 1 job with lots of overtime. Take all the overtime offered and become indispensable. Learn a trade or go to community college.
5. Save all your money. Don’t buy anything flashy.
6. You won’t be in poverty long.
I’ll let you know when I become wealthy.................
I’m comfortably middle class, and I think the answer to the question, from my perspective is, yes, of course, since the reason that I’m comfortably middle-class is that I (and my wife) had the self-discipline and emotional maturity to arise from poverty into the middle class.
Another one:
1. Join the Army.
It was a struggle, and took hard work on the part of many of us, to come out of lower income situations.
And what did we do? Things such as going to school, working hard, learning job skills, working hard to get promoted to higher level jobs, working hard to start a business to earn a good living, among other factors.
I heard someone say that key ways to avoid poverty are:
1. finish school, don’t drop out.
2. stay out of trouble with the law.
3. avoid unmarried pregnancy. For both men and women, avoid the situations which cause unplanned and out of wedlock children.
4. Learn job skills and learn what it takes to advance. Don’t expect to make a career out of an entry level minimum wage job.
5. Learn what jobs are in demand, and of interest to you, and learn what is needed to qualify for such jobs. Often a college degree is not what is needed. Some jobs require specific training. Learn what that training is, and how to get into training for such positions, if you want to move up.
Then you'll know who can survive poverty and who is suited to rise and meet their full potential.
FWIW, I did that for three months in the Summer of 1968. And "way back then" it was different? Not really. Cities were burning, overwhelmed by anger and dissent.
I guess this one is for those not Hardy enough to do the sleep in a cardboard box homeless challenge which in San Antonio is usually scheduled in a big parking lot in winter.
Lots of immigrants come to this country from Asia who can barely speak English. They follow your formula and have a million dollar net worth in just a few years.
I was born in Poverty.
I was raised in Poverty.
I did not like Poverty.
So, I left Poverty...............
We lived hand to mouth for so long that now, when we don’t, we still live a generally frugal lifestyle.
We could afford a bigger house but don’t want it. I do much of my clothes shopping at Walmart. Kohl’s is my idea of luxury.
It allows us to splurge when we need to and to give to others whenever we want to.
As a child, I used to eat Oscar Mayer bologna sandwiches with Kraft American singles on white bread.
Now I eat Boars Head pastrami sandwiches with Tillamook Swiss cheese on rye bread!
-PJ
The poorest people in the US are the most likely to be obese, something that has never happened before in all of human history. I see overweight homeless folks all the time. Part of that is the much of the cheapest foods are now the most fattening, but not the majority of it, in my opinion.
So I hope they gain a few pounds after the simulation, or it isn’t very true to form.
Freegards
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