Reply #67: the usual bunch of Great Society-ish crap, I see... [View All]

[NorthernSpy]

I don't know if they want to be poor but that is how they view themselves. To change this the poor and abused need to be caught in early infant childhood and given a different view of the world and themselves. If you take a child out of the ghetto and put them in a middle class or wealthy family they will most certainly have a higher probability of having successful money making jobs. It's not as simple as ending welfare but catching them young and teaching them about the opportunity's out their. It's also about teaching them interpersonal communication skills, parenting skills, conflict resolution skills etc.

Aw, fuck that shite. I'm damn sick of this smug assumption that poor people are poor because they lack "conflict resolution skills", or whatever else today's social workers fancy themselves to be saving the world by teaching.

Our economic structure guarantees the existence of an impoverished class. Every poor person in America could go out right this very mintue, and develop all those life skills and moral values and whatnot, and you know what? Most of them would remain poor, because WalMart needs stockboys and there's only so much room available in the middle class.

Why can't you life-skilled Enlightened Ones get that through your heads?