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Originally Posted by saratogaman
Poor people are poor because of decisions they've made? More likely they had the misfortune to be born in the wrong zip code and had poor schools. Florida school funding is among the lowest in the nation. Charter schools are a mixed bag for quality, not monitored for quality & safety and are not available to all kids. Oh, yes, what about discrimination against non-whites? Wasn't it Christ who said we should take care of the least of our brethren? Let loose with a few bucks for those who can most benefit.
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You offer nothing but excuses. That is the crutch of lazy and incompetent people, it is never their fault always someone else has done them wrong. If you will do some research and reading you will find many poor white and minority individuals that overcame their obstacles and succeeded very well in their lives.
I'll relate a story a Hispanic friend of ours told me about her and her husband. Both of them grew up in a barrio in California to unmarried mothers living on welfare. Her mother encouraged her to drop out of high school, get pregnant and go on welfare so she could get a place to live and not have to work. It was a great life, sleep in and get paid. In school teachers didn't care if they turned in school papers and still gave them a passing grade so they could be moved through and out of the system. These are schools in the utopia of California where everything is so wonderful and equal. She and her husband individually made the decision to do as well in school as they could and graduate. The neighborhood they lived in was gang territory and it was hard to avoid getting in the wrong crowd. When she and her husband married they had a hard time with good paying jobs so he joined the army for an opportunity to better their lives. He has done well professionally in the military and living well. I met so many individuals in the army with similar stories who did what was necessary to better their lives. It's not impossible, not even difficult to change your life. What do people expect when they graduate from high school and not able to read or do math at the 6th grade level? It's all personal choice, nobody forced them to make the decisions they did.