08-12-2015, 12:51 PM
(08-12-2015, 12:43 PM)jakefromstatefarm Wrote: I know very few poor people that don't suffer from one, if not all of the following:
1) Laziness
2) Poor decision-making
3) Drug/alcohol abuse (which could be tied to number 2, I suppose)
We can't regulate those things, no matter how much we'd like to. I'd rather be poor here than in any country in the world. The vast majority of our poor have a house or apartment, a car, cable TV, internet, food, clothing, and health care.
I personally think we should stop making it so comfortable for people in poverty, personally. We do. I'm in HR, and while working my way through the ranks of this company, I spent some time in lower-management and worked with a lot of the lower class. I had people that passed up promotions and more hours because they would lose benefits. Yes, you heard that right. We have a system that discourages people from being promoted or working more hours.
That's insanity, and quite a reflection on what these programs are really designed to do. Keep these people on the dole, because their vote means more than their quality of life and self-respect. It's essentially perpetual self-induced slavery.
Your logic fails because even if every poor person worked as hard as possible there would still be only a limited number of well paying jobs. That is the way the system is set up.
The claim that if every person worked hard then every person would be rich defies reality. It is impossible. the system does not allow that to happen.
