Posted on 04/19/2014 4:08:38 AM PDT by Kaslin
My CPA put it this way....”All I can tell you is that the rich are getting richer.”
Human nature. When LBJ established the Welfare State he knew the effect it would have on it’s participants and was glad.
Dependency is a drug that keeps you coming back and the end result is lazyness and hoplessness which soon turns to an arroagance and a demand.
When I was a child in the ‘60’s my father was sick for a whole year and did not work. We ate lots of potato’s. I asked my mother if we were poor and she said, “We don’t have much money but we’re not poor. I buy potato’s. Poor people spend their last dollar on cigarettes and beer. Being poor is a state of mind.”
The lives of the poor are the lives they, not us, have chosen to live. If you are poor, you are doing things wrong. Make better choices and have a richer life. Get educated, work, save, eat well, go to bed at night, clean your home, live healthy, avoid crime, hang with only good people, learn to speak well, learn to write well, practice doing things that seem hard to do until they become easy.
“Get educated, work, save, eat well, go to bed at night, clean your home, live healthy, avoid crime, hang with only good people, learn to speak well, learn to write well, practice doing things that seem hard to do until they become easy.”
There has to be opportunity for people to get ahead (which the US has had for much of its history). In other countries, exploitation was so bad the only remedy was to execute their ruling classes to get out of nstitutionalized poverty. While some poor people are in their situations because of their own choices, others are kept there by design.
There’s a horrible phrase.. “Don’t get above your raisings”. Beyond the English grammatical mistakes.. it is a phrase I’ve heard poor/lower class folk say to their young. Essentially, it is a socio-economic death knoll. Don’t try to be the first one to go to college. Don’t try to be a white collar worker when everyone else in the family is blue collar. Don’t use “uppity” words. Don’t put off marriage/children until later.. after education. Essentially, it is “keep the status quo”. I remember vividly a friend of mine and we were about eight or nine. She got straight A’s on her report card. Her Uncle said to her, “I guess it is alright as long as you are pretty”. Sheesh... I swear it is one generation fearful of the next one “out doing” them. In essence, it is a phrase/lifestyle that allows full participation in the family and obviously destructive. IMHO.
As Einstein said, “It’s all relative”. If everyone was a millionaire, there would still be some that were richer than the others. And we would ponder why the “poor” millionaires were not given the same opportunities as the “rich” millionaires. Get my drift.
In predominately black high schools in Dallas, it is common for black kids to call others who are studying, trying to succeed, ‘being like whitey’. They are considered traitors to the ‘race’. This has to come from their parents.
The question is like asking “why are there car wrecks.”
In both cases, there are so many legitimate answers that it is ludicrous to even try to list them all. It is also an even more foolish enterprise to attempt to find one cause that applies to all or even most poor people or car wrecks.
There is a whole poverty culture, enforced by those living in poverty and the politicians who seek their votes. It is meant to keep people in poverty, by teaching them they are entitled and by quashing their hopes for a better life. It is exceedingly difficult for one born into that culture to get out of it. I speak from experience.
ping for printing.
This is the “progressive tax rate” that Liberals are so proud of. It explains why the Middle Class is disappearing.
Christ said it when he said the poor will always be among us. As to why, he did not say.
Simple solution: cut welfare benefits so she has no choice but to work or starve. (Or, in real life, has no choice but to get married to some man who will support her).
It does. However, the “don’t get above your raisings”... came from the white families I knew. What amazes me is I think it is natural for a parent to want their child to do MUCH, MUCH better than they did. More education, better job, more money.. all of it. For example.. I want my three to “out-do” me by leaps and bounds. That’s what my parents wanted for their kids.
“WHY YOU ACTIN’ SO WHITE?!!!!!!!”
bttt
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