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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If a person is poor it is their own doing. In america anyone can get an education, anyone can be self made. Instead of whining about being poor do something about it otherwise you are just lazy.

Also don't bring children into poverty. If you do you are a bad parent.[/quote]

I wouldn't go so far as to say poverty is always the person's fault -- there are layoffs and medical bankruptcies and other unfortunate things that happen, and while it is possible to be self made in America, if those things happen in your 50s or 60s -- there just isn't that much time to get back on track because businesses are not clamoring to hire 50 yr olds. BUT I will say if you are young and unemployable for years on end -- with no medical/health issues -- you bear some responsibility. The U.S. has free public education, and yet in the part of Baltimore that's been the focus for the last 2 days -- the HS graduation rate is 60%. Whose fault is that besides the kids and the parent -- it certainly wasn't money that kept you from going to school, as is often the case in other countries?? What type of job do you think you'll find in 2015 without a HS degree? And in the same part of Baltimore the unemployment rate is about 20% -- is there something that prevents these people from finishing HS, getting a degree, and moving to wherever they can find a job? There are southern states with manufacturing jobs, and there are very underpopulated states like North and South Dakota with unemployment rates under 5% that will hire HS grads in certain positions and let them move up through hard work. So you pretty much need a HS degree and enough money to pay your bus fare to the Dakotas and you can live at least a lower middle class life. What is stopping these people?? Why is it preferable to stay in the inner city and deal drugs or hang out on street corners or do whatever it is they do all day?[/quote]

Guess you haven't watched the wire[/quote]

No I haven't. So if the Wire answers it -- please share. What prevents these people from completing a free high school education and then moving to wherever they can secure a job that'll give them some upward mobility. I really don't think this is SO difficult. It's not like I'm saying that everyone has to graduate high school and then go on to college and medical school. But they can't get a HS diploma and move into a manufacturing job someplace??[/quote]

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