rooster wrote:DreamStalker wrote:
Oh ... so you "mean poor people's governments have poor ways" ... right?
Well yes, you could consider that Grannie's words of wisdom working at a
macro level.
But her words are true at the
micro level also. Goofproof notes a good example. Like Goofproof, Grannie looked at the poor people in her community and saw they were involved in various bad activities such as heavy drinking, drug use, wife and child beating, family desertion, illegitimate children, failure to consistently show up for work, squandering resources on frivolous items, failure to save for a rainy day, etc.
Well let's see then, on the macro level there is not, has never been, and never will be a government that is not corrupt ... so that may explain why there are poor, always have, and always will be poor people in every country including the good old USA
rooster wrote:DreamStalker wrote:
........but not the WalMarts or the people who shop there?
I don't know about San Antonio, but in North Carolina every WalMart fills up every day with a big socio-economic cross section of shoppers. So who are you blaming for whatever it is bad that WalMart supposedly does?
By WalMarts I mean a placeholder for international corporations that outsource labor to third world economies and keep the corrupt governments corrupt and poor people poor ... and by people who shop there I mean those who ignorantly feed the corporate machines and keep them growing.
rooster wrote:DreamStalker wrote:
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Blaming poor people for being poor is ... well, a poor way of stereotyping them.
Get a high school education, shower every morning, dress and groom presentably, show up at work every day a few minutes early, treat your associates with respect, treat the company's customers like they are important, don't have babies until you can afford them, don't use illegal drugs ..... you get the idea. In the good old USA it's pretty simple for 95% of the poor to give up their poor ways and get out of the poor class.
Now I know calamity sometimes befalls people with good ways and puts them in financial binds. But this is a minority and there is plenty of help for most who seek it.
So those unfortunate who have an illness without any way to pay for health care are in the minority? ... Well, I guess you're right, 45 million US citizens are a statistical minority
http://www.census.gov/Press-Release/www ... 02484.html
But wait then there are those like my Mom who like your Grandma managed to get a 6th grade education before she had to quit school to work in the agriculture fields of south Texas to help feed her family because her father died when she was about 2 years old (btw – she was born in Texas as were my grandparents and great grandparents ... so don't go Lou Dobbs on me now). She bathed each night with water from the canal that she heated in a metal tub, and groomed herself as best she could afford, and went to work before the sun came up, never did drugs, and didn't have me or my sisters until after she was 23, got married to my dad, and could afford us. I don't know what kind of micro economics you learned but just because people are poor does NOT mean they are dirty, ungroomed, lazy, drug addict, baby factories. My dad was a bit more fortunate, though not rich, or even middle class as he too worked the fields as a teen but managed to finish high school then joined the air force to advance his education -- since there was no way he could ever afford college. As a young adult, I was lucky enough to be able work my way through college instead of working to help support my family as my parents did theirs ... and I did take a freshman economic course but I must have been asleep when they defined poor people.
Your micro economics is all screwed up ... you have poor people mixed up with people that have low esteem and/or other psychological problems. Just watch the news and you will note that rich people can have low self esteem too and heavy drinking, drug use, wife and child beating, family desertion, illegitimate children, squandering resources on frivolous items, ... and some of them don't even work so it's hard for them to show up late I guess.
President-pretender, J. Biden, said "the DNC has built the largest voter fraud organization in US history". Too bad they didn’t build the smartest voter fraud organization and got caught.