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Originally Posted by jeezeweeze  There will always be folks that abuse any and all things.
However as an affluent nation would we rather our poor sit on city streets and beg for their daily sustenance. No way to bathe, no hope, no reason to live ?
All you have to do is Look at the poor countries. Its so out of our understanding that this is just their daily lives. I guess kinda HELL ON EARTH. |
Some of the poor countries are Hell on Earth. They have high unemployment and it leads the young people to be terrorists and such because they have nothing else to do. In our country though we would NOT rather the poor sit on the streets and beg. We have about a bazillion social programs to prevent that...unfortunately a few fall through the cracks and the rest just choose to be that way through the poor decisions they make. If you spend your life eating meth do you really think you are going to live in a nice house and have a great life? A recent census came out talking about the "poor". Did you know that 97% of America's poor have a color tv, 78% have a dvd or vcr and 62% have cable or satellite. Nearly 75% of poor households own at least one car and 30% own two.
HERE is a better link about POVERTY:
Understanding Poverty in America
THIS puts poverty in perspective. We don't want kids and old people digging in dumpsters to eat. This mental picture is a great reason why we should PRIVATIZE social security and let people invest their own money into their own account then they won't have to depend on a SS system that is on it's way to disaster in the current status quo. The fact is though the Liberals don't want this because it takes their power base away. When you have people that are not dependent on gov't rolls it empowers them and takes the gov't control away. Many people that are on gov't programs vote liberal because you don't bite the hand that feeds you.