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Anonymous wrote: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.

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?

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: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.

haven't hung out with many disabled veterans, people bankrupt from medical bills, widows raising children, laid off workers, or anyone stuck in an area of low employment, have you. Your empathy is missing.

And plenty of people have pulled themselves right up out of those holes and done fine for themselves.

Whiney woe as me doesn't earn a living.

I've never met a whiney poor person. I've met a cancer patient that lost everything . You'd have disparaged him when he was homeless. Probably called him lazy . He's spent 15 years trying to get a life back. You have no idea if you haven't lived someone else's experience. I work four jobs as a single mom I never whine. I work relentlessly.

Cue the son stories. Maybe someone should give you half their money you didn't earn to make life fair for you.

Nope. Things are going to be better in a year . One job is ft, three are part time. I still have time for my child and some sleep. Why so nasty? My kid is 18 shortly and off to collage. We're doing well, thanks. I'm trying to illustrate that most of us working poor are WORKING.