http://www.thinkinghomebusiness.com/2008/10/16/dealing-with-poverty-closer-to-home-wendys-list/
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To Easton Ellsworth who has labored mightily to bring us Blog Action Day 2008 and poke and prod us to participate, and to all my blogging colleagues who have posted about poverty and about what can be and is being done about it, my admiration and my thanks.
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I heard the clarion call all bloggers to much ado about nothing. And, I ignored it as “drivel” at best; socialism at worst.
Not that anyone cares, but here’s why!
Sigh, seems so obvious to me.
“Poverty” is a industry here in the USA. There are folks who are deriving a lot of earnings, moral superiority, and kudos that they don’t deserve. Like the United Way CEO that earns megabucks. Like all the paid gooferment employees, that earn a healthy chunk of change now and in their future retirement, for their “public service”.
Don’t make me barf!
First, poverty, the industry is despicable. To be truly poor is a terrible human condition. But, not having stuff, isn’t being poor. Go to Africa, where folks die of starvation. Or, disease from not having clean water. Where their gooferment really does kill them. Or, they have massive inflation of money.
That’s true poverty.
Any time any one talks about “poverty” here in the USA, I am instantly reminded of the TV interview of this shell of a fellow waiting on line in some African community to get an application for a green card. The interviewer asked the fellow why he wanted to come to the USA. He responded immediately “You have fat poor people.”
I think that sums it up. We need folks like him. I’d have given him a green card just for that service to our country.
See the “poverty industry” wants us to think that the bottom ten, twenty five, or fifty percent is “poor”.
Sorry!
They aren’t. Not by that fellow’s metric.
And, their situation is USUALLY either due to their own mistakes or the gooferment.
So, that’s why I think all the blogging would do a bit of good. The problem is defined wrong!
I happily contribute to Homefront New Jersey, where a very underpaid lady, make a nickel in to six pennies, as she helps single moms (mostly) move off welfare and onto their own two feet. That’s progress.
We should be striking at the heart of the problem but that is the misconceptions and gooferment welfare. Good luck doing that.
Argh!
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