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Originally Posted by signupdamnit
Our society thinks of people in poverty as "defective". When you have an attitude such as this it is no wonder you don't win. You aren't identifying root causes. You aren't fixing anything. You're just throwing a little bit of money at the problem and doing nothing to prevent it from growing.
I've read many of your posts in the past and maybe I'm out of line and maybe I'm wrong but I get the feeling your question is rhetorical and like most GOP advocates you're trying to bring up the "waste of money". IOW "See we spent millions and it failed so let's stop trying to help these bums". This is another reason why things never get better. It's all attitude. No not just the impoverished but all of us. We make it fail.
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I think one of the reasons few things change is that there area always differing opinions on how to change them so finding a middle ground can be very difficult.
Look at the war on the drugs. By pretty much all standards it is a failure. We have spent trillions of dollars and put millions of people in jail yet the number of kids trying and using drugs is about the same as is the number of overall users. Yet, we continue to do it and the ideas on how to maybe deal with the issues are all over the spectrum.
The same can be said with poverty. Some will say that you can solve poverty by giving the poor free education and helping them find good jobs. Others will just say to give them money and housing and take care of them. Still others will say fuck 'em, don't give them anything and it will motivate them work harder and lift themselves from the bottom.
The reality is that in a capitalist system there will always be poor people. It just works that way. The hope is that there is a way for those who want out of that situation to have a pathway out and those who are in that situation to have options so they can, at the very least, live a decent life and have access to healthcare, housing, food etc.