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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]50% FARMS...  A naive person might ask, "How is it that a city with so many high-income, high powered opportunities, where the brightest and most talented people from all over the country, and for that matter come from all over the world to work, has so many low-income families?"

I'll tell the truth that nobody wants to hear - it's the co-dependent clinging.  Low-income residents stay because of the overly generous social safety net to keep them here, and DC politicians cling to that infrastructure and keep it in place because they know they can control and manipulate those votes.

Everyone knows it, but nobody wants to admit it.[/quote]

This is such a ridiculous myth that people who haven't lived in poverty love to believe. How much do you know about the safety net? Most people who throw this tired argument out have little knowledge of how the safety net actually works, and couldnt explain the difference between TANF and SNAP if they needed to actually stand behind the claim with a well thought out argument. What do you want people to do? Move to a state that provides fewer benefits so that they are even further in poverty, but pehaps they can be homeless, too, and with even less of a chance of escaping poverty.

You try living in poverty for a year and then decide if that's the luxurious lifestyle keeping people in DC.[/quote]

Oh, it's no myth.  Why else cling to DC?  It's because the benefits for the poor are far better in DC than in the surrounding area.  Wake up, folks.  Nobody's buying the BS anymore.  [/quote]

Why [i]cling[/i] to DC? Have you ever tried to move when you have no savings, hardly any credit (if any), and rely on sharing rent/food/childcare with family in order to make it? Maybe you've never been so poor that you don't know what it means to not be able to afford a security deposit.

And even if a poor person could find a way to move, why do you expect them to move somewhere with fewer benefits? So that you can have less poor people in your city? Making people move won't suddenly make them more employable if there are no jobs for them, and they don't have access to job training.

A culture of blaming poor people - instead of insufficient wages, among other things - for the problems associated with poverty is why it's so hard for our country to even make a dent in widespread poverty. Living on government assistance often doesn't even get people TO the poverty line, and the poverty line is certainly not considered desirable and many don't even consider it truly livable. If you think all of that is "BS" you really need to educate yourself about the causes of poverty.[/quote]

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