Hillary's State Dept. Is Going To Try Using Food As A Diplomatic Tool

Yeah, don't ask questions just line up to get your check & don't forget to vote dimocRAT if you want the checks to continue!!

 

Like most things, poverty and it's causes are more complicated than the Right-wing tends to see them and the solution is never to blame the victims as they so often do. The single best solution to the problem of poverty is still education.


Just as the definition of poverty changes as per the context, the causes of poverty also differ in that sense. While population explosion, lack of infrastructure, corruption, natural disasters, political instability, war are some causes of poverty in the third world countries, poverty in America is influenced by far different causes. Given below are some factors which contribute to poverty in America.

Shift in Business Economy
Earlier, American economy was greatly dependent upon manufacturing industries such as steel, textile, automobile etc. These industries presented number of opportunities to uneducated but capable labor. Most of the workforce constituted of African Americans. However, this scenario has undergone a sea change with the emergence of new economical sectors such as Health Care and Information Technology. As a result of this, the reliance of American economy on traditional manufacturing sector reduced. These sectors demanded highly educated and trained professionals. This eventually, led to loss of business opportunities for the minimally educated workforce.

Unemployment
Although, unemployment is one of the cause of poverty, it is an altogether different social issue. Unemployment stems from various social, economical conditions. As mentioned above, shift in business economy is one cause of unemployment for a particular section of society. However, apart from that, there are several other factors which lead to unemployment. It is hard to ignore that majority of impoverished people are either unemployed or only part-time employed. Only 2.5% of poor people come from a full-time workforce. These figures indicate how a person's financial state is influenced by his employment status.

Lack of Education, Skill
The incidence of high school dropouts is in congruence with the rate of poverty. Lack of education flatly translates to lack of employment opportunities, which eventually leads to poverty. As the demand for laborious jobs diminished, uneducated people were left to welter in poverty. As these people neither had education nor did they acquire any skills required to sustain in changed economical scenario, they were driven into the vicious circle of poverty. This again constituted a large number of black people.

Rise of Suburbs
Most American cities have sprawled to outskirts, leading to creation of suburbs. Suburbs offered better living condition to people. Naturally, many businesses shifted their bases to the newly developed suburb areas. Those who stayed back in the core cities faced a steep shortage of employment opportunities. This eventually forced them to live in impoverished conditions.

Breakdown of Family System
Increased divorce rate means more number of families headed by women alone. Often, these women are unable to take care of their families single handedly. Lack of education, unplanned or out-of-wedlock pregnancies compound the problems of single women. As a result, they cannot find suitable employment to run their homes. Obviously, the entire family then gets dragged into poverty.

Lack of Willpower
The constant rate of poverty over decades indicates that there is no enough willpower to address this issue, either at personal level or at bureaucratic level. Some sections of poor people make no attempts to improve their condition whatsoever. They not only force their progeny to live in deplorable conditions, but they also pass this unfortunate attitude to them. The end result is, generations of poor people living in destitute conditions. These people are reluctant to interact on a social level, thereby thwarting all attempts to improve their condition.

Crime, drug abuse, mental illnesses are often falsely considered as causes of poverty. However, these are not the causes but effects of poverty. In America, discrimination at various levels such as social, racial, economic, is a major factor responsible for poverty. Most of the above causes of poverty in America stem from inequality. Hence, steps must be taken to bring various societal elements on an equal footing, so as to reduce poverty.

 

I'm assuming you meant the fact that we both advocate for financial management training. The comment of mine, that your reply above addresses, is about that. The point of that comment of mine was that I had been waiting for you to realize, and state, our agreement on this point.

The difference is motive. Yours' is always about money, specifically how your money is being spent by the government unfairly. My motive is respect for other people's lives, and the choices they make, right or wrong.

 

Yet when I suggest that very thing the lefties here just want to argue. Why is that?

 

I retract this statement. I can't expect him to be truthful.

 

You should take a broader view of the issue & not focus only on the financial aspect.
You should also be honest when discussing motive. I haven't said a word about reducing funding for programs I've just advocated a wiser allocation of the money. How can you disagree with that? So, yeah, since I have skin in the game it doesn't seem outrageous to want it spent effectively instead of as a means to shore up the liberals voting bloc.

 

Hence the "Dictator" reference...lonnnnnnng ago.

I understand your limitations but...oy!

 

Hey, what about that "free will" statement? Has lil joe ordered you to retract that one too?

 

Don't you consider this an insult?

"So now..." <--- the twist. Do you see it, or not? You are too comfortable doing such things, and that's why, when you have a point to make, it isn't taken seriously.

 

In order for poverty to be "eliminated", a complicated series of events has to precede it. Those events are not going to happen, and no, I'm not going into any great amount of detail here, only for you to ignore it, but free will is a major part of the concept.

There are 300 million+ citizens in America, each with their own beliefs, and there will always be a "ying" to a "yang", in other words; someone will always be in poverty.

That doesn't mean we shouldn't make the attempt, of course, and you are correct that some people don't deserve financial assistance, but you are "cutting off the arm to avoid the pain of a hang-nail", so to speak.

 

Yeah, but how many insults did I endure before firing back? See, lil joe moen is leading you down the wrong path by convincing you to hurl insults when you can't articulate your point. It hasn't worked for him & it surely won't work for you.
Ready to get back on track now?

 

It's not like your political party of choice is exactly pushing this idea of education so they are probably confused by you saying it if that is what you are actually saying. The Right has cut education grants, cut funding for public schools, attacked teachers, plans to end the student loan program, and showed absolutely no concern for education in this country. I see people pull themselves out of bad social situations every day but it isn't like they ever have Republicans to thank for their opportunity.

 

No, on the contrary (using your analogy), I saw we look for ways to keep the pain of the hang nail from ever occuring. See where I'm going with this?

 

Sometimes, hell, most times, all you earn is insults. What am I going to do, NOT hurl them? Not bloody likely!

 

What you so conveniently omit in this argument is the fact that college isn't for everyone. Plus, the groundwork has to be laid well before some college financial-aid seller has the kid in the closing booth.

 

Well, actually I was speaking with iqless. You're a lost cause...insults are what you deserve so insults are what you'll get. You aren't capable of having a serious discussion on this or any other topic so I stopped wasting my time with your canned talking points and cut&pastes a long time ago.

 

"Get over the material aspect of things..." ...really? Isn't that your issue, the "waste of (your tax) money"?

You live your life. Your neighbor lives hers. Neither of you SHOULD tell the other they are raising their children wrong, but here you are talking about the "right" way to do that. Again, what you want is a dictatorship, where you make all of us do the "right" thing.

Your way is fine for you, but it isn't for everyone. I can simplify that more for you by asking you what your favorite color is. Say you answer. Does that mean everyone should also choose the color you chose? And if they don't?

You can't impose your will on someone else that way! You'd have the shortest dictatorship (and funeral procession) in history!

 

I do... ...though I am not receiving them.

I take it if it was your kid all alone and starving, you'd have no problem cancelling her check and allowing her to suffer and die slowly...as long as you wouldn't have to personally witness that suffering, that death, right?

 

Your word choice, your attitude, your previous comments? As I said, I was waiting for you to understand that we agreed, but you do love to argue...and that complicates our responses.

 

So the action you would take is to do nothing?
I'm saying we attack the root causes of poverty, the things that cause it to be handed down from generation to generation and you called it dictatorship? Dude, you gotta start somewhere & I say he start right here, right now.
I'll tell you a little story...we did some outreach work at a local school recently, a school in one of the worst parts of town. We saw kids who weren't fed, who were allowed to stay up all night, kids who came to school sick, dirty & with head lice, just to name a couple of things. Poverty didn't prevent the parents from being parents to these kids, they either didn't know better or other influences were causing them to make poor decisions. Being proactive is what is needed here. Breaking the cycle so these kids don't make the same mistakes made in their upbringing is vital.....and we spent enough time with the kids, parents, counselors & everyone else involved to know that low income wasn't the driving force behind what we witnessed.