The United States remains the richest nation in the world, and in fact is getting richer as American corporations are busy sucking up profits from their off-shore subsiduaries, and yet the numbers of poor people continue to rise. What is astonishing is that you continue to blame the poor for their plight, and shower praise on the wealthy who are exploiting them.
If the poor people are not responsible for their plight, then who is?
In the USA, poverty is an option, not an affliction. If you want to be poor, then be poor. If you don't want to be poor, then work and don't be poor. If you want to be poor, have children you can't financially support. If you don't want to be poor, don't have children until you are very financially secure.
I don't know what's worse: That you believe this bullshit, or that you vote on that basis.
The poor didn't set up the system and they don't maintain it. The rich have blocked nearly every path out of poverty there is. Education: students now graduate with so much debt, that they are moving home with their parents and delaying marriage, buying a house and starting life.
Despite the charts and graphs which have been posted which prove otherwise, despite the figures on the transfer of wealth from working class and middle class to the top 5%, you still continue to believe the deck is NOT stacked against working yourself out of poverty.
Fewer and fewer Americans, by percentage, are successful, even while corporate profits have never been higher. And there you sit denying that this is the real problem.
Like I've said so many times, yes, the people at the top are getting money from people at the bottom and middle, but not by force. The people at the bottom and middle freely give their money to the top, and at times, even beg them to take it.
You do it, I do it, everybody here does it. Yet even though we are responsible for this wealth transfer, some complain about it even though they are part of the problem.
The "rich" are not making education unaffordable, it's those liberal colleges that make education unaffordable. They can preach all the Socialism they want to their students, but when it comes to their pocketbooks, they take advantage of the supply and demand process more so than those greedy CEO's and business owners.
So again, poverty is a choice, not an affliction. If you don't believe so, then give me your scenario how somebody ends up poor. I'll give you mine how to stay out of poverty:
A kid graduates high school. He or she gets a job and starts earning money. They try to live with their parents as long as possible (or as long as they can take it) and save money for a house or a nest egg if they decided to rent.
Once that kid gets kicked out of the house or opts to get their own place, they get friends or family members to go on an apartment and divide up the living costs. They continue to save money, and continue to get pay increases at their job or try to advance themselves within the company. They don't have any children, stay away from buying unnecessary things like the latest cell phone, the newest care, the most expensive cable or satellite package.
This is how you stay out of poverty. And if that doesn't work, get a secondary job on the weekends or perhaps work overtime if your company offers it. Now you tell me how somebody getting out of school ends up in poverty.
