neither. I'd submit that I have a pretty good idea of what the environment is, and am giving you the benefit of the doubt that you have a point that isn't completely flawed and illogical, so that I must be missing something.
If you feel threatened because I've caught you in an ah-ha! moment, I can't help that.
then I don't understand the point of your comment/question.
my point is that the government doesn't care about the poor (and by poor, I mean those who are out of work, uneducated, or below the poverty line). They get blamed by our government for stealing jobs (those damn mexicans!), or living high on the government teet (they have refrigerators!) or lazy (why, pull yourself up by the boot straps! I did it!).
instead of coming up with programs that get them jobs (that would be living wage jobs) or bettering universal access to education (i.e., a smarter populace makes for a better populace), our government tries to ignore them and blame them instead.
You know what we should really be complaining about as a country? The fact that we aren't creating jobs for people. We aren't creating (or aren't utilizing) a market where people can go from being poor to middle class without much struggle.
The more people in the middle class, the more people there are who have decent to good jobs, the more money the government takes in, the better we are. Instead of having (although I bet the # is high) 40-45 million people in poverty, we should have far less. Instead of complaining about those damn Mexicans (living in squalor) working the farms, we should be creating some kind of system where we can both benefit from it more. Instead of accusing poor of just milking the government (to survive), we should have a government that creates a market where these people can survive on their own. yes, I know to some that is a contradiction (hello shooter, nice seeing you), but I don't.
So far we've created a market where if you're poor, you stay poor. yes, you'll have an anecdotal story of someone who moved up, but in most cases poor people aren't given opportunities people of even middle class lineage are. Hell, one of my former co-workers came from a much poorer background then I did, and she couldn't go to college right away because she had to get a job to help with the family income (because neither of her parents could afford to go to college when they were of age).
"Get student loans" you say? Sure, that works for some, but not if you're one of the sole bread winners in a family with young children and your income is greatly needed for survival.
I honestly think schooling should be free all through college (up to a certain amount of credits). You give a poor person the same opportunity that the son of a lawyer has, and I would bet they could make a good go of things. But if you deny them that opportunity, they're already behind the game.
The military works wonders for some people too.
Call me a socialist, but I think education should be provided (for those who want it).
