Well, yeah, but if you've spent any time with people in poverty you would know that number 1 is much harder for some than others and has a direct effect on number 3. Ultimately, Joe, I'm not arguing poverty with you.
Poverty is for losers - infantile rebels who don't want to play by the rules of common sense.
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By contrast, young adults who violated all three norms — dropped out, got married before 21 and had children out of wedlock and didn’t have a full-time job — had a 76 percent chance of winding up in poverty and a 7 percent chance of winding up in the middle class.
Ron Haskins, co-author of the Brookings study, looked at census information.
He called the results “astounding,” noting that it’s time to emphasize the role that personal decisions have on staying out of the poorhouse."
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Astounding? face)(*^%
Ron, your idea is great, but also a sure-fire loser: it won't buy you any votes.
50 years ago, people didn't a Brookings 'study' to confirm the values they were raised with.
You know what's even funnier than this thread? The Venezuela thread...the guy who made 400k "for years" who suddenly found himself homeless the moment he lost his job. He's kidding, right? I know millionaires who've never come close to earning that kind of cabbage. If he ran for office on that sob story, I'd have a research team dig into every aspect of his life - every poor decision which lead to his pathetic riches to rags circumstances. There had to have been at least 3761.
As I already documented in that thread, the "system" (tax code, toxic govt programs on ALL levels) is rigged to reward the bad apples, rather than the people who play by the rules of common sense, which is why society (children born out of wedlock; the cycle of poverty etc.) keeps getting worse.
As for the truly unfortunate 1-2%, there are ways of helping those in need..none involve the federal government. Sorry for the killing the whole meaning of being a modern Democrats, but it's true.
Socialism is for losers - people who freely choose shortcuts, then fall on their asses and expect handouts from honest people who play by rules.
Punish success and reward failure - it only took the radical left 100 years to convince enough idiots that fucking up your life is not only a virtue, but something you should blame on your "greedy" neighbor.
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