Over 5000, in a country of 250 million. Nice try.
Your right. You provide for your family and you could create an endowment that would provide to charity for many years to come or even indefinitely if it was managed correctly. Settling for being poor, you help no one
I'm not settling for being poor. My point WAS...which you conveniently ignore...is that not everyone has the intellectual capacity to become wealthy. In fact, half of our population, is "below average" in intelligence. Your myopia will lead us to socialism, because these people VOTE. Either they have decent jobs, or they will vote for the rest of us to pick up the tab.
Get over it already. Manufacturing is dead here. Learn programming, networks, satellites, copmputer aided design, engineering, etc. They need to study mathematics and science not "It's normal to have two dads". If as you say, they are not intellectually suited for this and are better at trade skills there are all kinds of things in metal working, construction, air conditioning and duct work, landscaping, roofing, plumbing, road building, tarnsportation, truck driving, etc that pay just as well or better than manufacturing today.
Well, hundreds of thousands of people DID learn programming, CAD, engineering...and their jobs are being sent to India (or we are importing their replacements). The latter jobs are being overtaken by illegal immigrants. Don't believe me? I live in IOWA; landscaping, roofing, and most framing is already being done by Mexicans.
The candle is burning from both ends. Fortunately, the generation up and coming (Gen-X), is FAR more intelligent than you think. Plus, they all became computer whizzes...only to see their jobs taken away. We've a score to settle; wouldn't count on SS or Medicare if I were you.
"Over 5000, in a country of 250 million. Nice try."
Right,like 250 million manufacturing jobs will be created.
"..is that not everyone has the intellectual capacity to become wealthy."
Wealth accumulation is definitely not based on intellingence. If they can save 50 dollars a month consistently, yes they can.
As for the rest, we will never see the issue the same. If you have solutions by all means, work to implement them.