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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.brookings.edu/opinions/three-simple-rules-poor-teens-should-follow-to-join-the-middle-class/amp/

Graduate high school, get a job, wait until age 21 to marry and don't have kids premarriage, and you have only a 2% chance of living in poverty.[/quote]

Love this! With just a bit of tweaking short, snappy, and to the point.  Should be basis of a national advertising campaign.  [/quote]
What an arrogant ignorant directive [/quote]

Yeah, I mean any one of those is super hard, I can't imagine doing all of them together.  Insanity.[/quote]
It is the simplistic, condescending tone, as if just telling them is going to make it happen without any regard for helping to create the circumstances and environment that would help make it possible .[/quote]
We're looking at this from different sides of the coin.  You think we should provide some kind of social service or "environment" to make it conducive for POCs and poors to make good choices.  I think we should pull the rug out so they have no choice but to get off their asses and make good choices themselves or face a shitty future.  Bottom line, that's all that works with the remora class.  If you give them anything they will keep taking and taking and putting in as little effort as possible.  Why should it be everybody else's responsibility to [b]bankroll their poor choices?[/b]
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You clearly think that social policy is some form of altruism for the "remora" class (WTF??).

It's not.

If we don't at least attempt to improve outcomes for the poor, we will "bankroll their poor choices" FOREVER, in the form of subsidized food, healthcare, reduced economic power, reduced productivity, increased crime, and prisons.

If the government can sit around and do noting and "worthy" people will be fine, why isn't Somalia doing better?[/quote]
You may have unwittingly solved the entire problem!  Maybe we can structure it like this:  Congratulations, on the birth of your second child on Medicaid and your lack of employment you are now a member of the remora class.  You have 6 months of assistance to keep you on your feet while you find gainful employment and wean yourself off public assistance.  Members of the remora class who are unsuccessful after 6 months will be shipped to Somalia.[/quote]

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