someone posted an article a while back that put forth the proposition that if they can't attain a certain level of income, then the effort required is disproportionate to the return.... many see that level of effort as too hard and therefore don't even try, after all it's easier to sit at home and do nothing right?
what typically happens when someone who was living in poverty wins the lotto? the money gets blown and they end up in the same situation as before. yes, lets give them more money to spend on drugs....i'm sure that will help the economy.
Why can't you take the responsibility to not fall for right-wing ideology full of lies?
You remind me of slavery proponents who said, 'slavery is a good thing, look at them, release them into the public and stop providing shelter and food and they'll starve' - nevermind how slaves were crippled by centuries of slavery, with it illegal to even make teach them literacy, and by a century of racist restrictions even after that.
Funny how many African Americans do great on anything like an equal footing - our current President just one example - but people still fail to connect any ongoing problems with ongoing legacy effects of that long history of racism leaving people in poverty, segregated by economics and long histories of legal segregation, if not the law today.
The liberal recognizes that investing in the citizens increases prosperity; the right-winger has ignorance telling only one simple thing, 'cut all spending', leading to societal poverty.
So many right-wing areas are 'backwards', filled with poverty, and they call it success.
That's just in our crazy country nutty enough to have places to try these things, the rest of the advanced world knows better, they have safety nets, healthcare, etc.
And to show for it, we have the highest incarceration in the world (eat our dust, China), bad problems with drugs, education, and so on - the right: cut spending, cut spending.
It's not that we don't need to cut spending - we do, but the right has the game figured out, with 'starve the beast' - keep the corrupt spending, force cuts for the middle class.
The Middle Class's *private* debt alone - which is far bigger than the government debt - has propped up that 1%, spending money they don't have for profits for the owners.
But ignoramuses don't get the 'class war' going on. Divide the citizens, make the middle class hate the poor while raping them all.
What's your logic - poor people can't cope with the lottery win, so make them all poor with policies for the rich? Pathetic.
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