Poverty in the U. S. A.

The globe is divided between the rich and the poor. Through most of the 19th century and right up to the time of the Great Depression there was a theory: “the poor are the lazy”. The poor are the lowest quintile of the people who gave up on working and decided they were no longer going to work for living, and they were going to bum for living or even steel or rob others. The …

…to give it up. The basic liberal solution is to provide the poor with better education and training. To end the poor dependency on government largesse I would recommend just to cut them off from entire welfare and income-support for working-aged persons. That would leave unemployed people with no resource except to find a job on the market. The preacher said: The best way to help poor people is to not be one of them!”