THE RACE QUESTION!!!

[Preechr]

Poverty in America is almost entirely simple self-destruction.

Poor people smoke more, drink more, do more drugs, play the lottery more, gossip more, complain more, work less, exercise less, eat worse, save less, charge more, value education less, abuse their children more, have more children, value pre-natal care less and thus have more children with birth defects, value their own medical needs less and thus spend more time ill and or dying from easily avoidable maladies and generally do EVERY thing they can think of to make their own lives, and the lives of everyone around them, as bad as possible.

If you want to know whether or not a given person is poor, assess the nature of their actions. The higher the percentage of the things they do fall in line with the kind of actions listed above to the total of their actions, the more likely that person is either financially poor or Nikki Sixx. Poverty, at least in this country, is just a SYMPTOM of a self-destructive lifestyle... IN MOST CASES. Your life is your own damn fault, good or bad. Giving a poor, doped-up bum a nice, new home only gives him more to lose. Which he will. There's always the outside chance that having had something nice done for him will help him change his mind and start behaving more like he loves himself... I wouldn't hold my breath.

Correcting the symptoms of a problem rarely functions as a cure. That's SIMPLE common sense. If you want to argue that, please unplug your keyboard first. In fact, the logic behind our "War on Poverty" that uses welfare as a weapon is so counter-intuitive as to make me wonder why our "safety nets" aren't derided and despised by those that aren't actually poor but wish to help those that are.