Will the poor ever care about themselves....?

Question

Ok so this was someone else's idea but still it goes with my other question, which very few people GOT in the first place...they all took it personally whether rich or poor.

So let me word it this way and perhaps clarify because I'd like more focused feedback.

I quite agree with the person who posed this question this way because I think people in general, but mostly the poor and uneducated, allow themselves to be manipulated.

There are literally those with insufficient brain cells to possibly help themselves even if they could....this much is true regardless of where you want to bite me in the *** for saying so, but those who can, DONT. How many of you have actually picked up a phone and called someone in your government to complain about something, or emailed them and kept on their butts until they did something?

How many of you FIGHT in your school system, and gather together and take it to your school boards and get your trustees involved, etc.

If you aren't willing to step up to the plate and fight for something because "it's too much work" or "someone won't like me if I do" or the lazy man's excuse "what difference does it make no one will listen" then I agree you are better off bamboozled and walked on because you know what? 75 percent of the population on this planet are "poor" by (many) definitions of the word.

If YOU are not the one to make the difference then WHO?

Are you willing to trust people who have thier own motives after all you have witnessed this last decade?

I for one, have watched OUR great country be steamrolled over by AMERICAN interests and not ONE GOOD THING has come of it.

And worse things are to come with this UNHOLY allegiance between Can/Am/Mexico mark my words.

So when are the poor going to start caring about themselves and step up to the plate?

You know what. I hear people complain all the time. For a year I heard everyone complain about a traffic light at school they had to wait 4 lights to turn at. I called, got the city to look at it, and they did a traffic light and it was done. One phone call.

The minute I made that phone call and told the women on the council (who whined about this constantly) they "suddenly" started calling the same person harrassing them about it too. Who was stopping them before? No one, but NOW they move. Always someone has to do it.

Now they want me to join and get involved etc. etc. No. Because people just use you for thier own benefit and frankly if you want CHANGE, you need to go out there and just MAKE THAT CHANGE YOURSELF.

My point is that always someone has to force people to do something that they should be doing for themselves. You can't save the world you are right, but you can effect change, if everyone changed ONE thing imagine all that we could accomplish.

Answer 1

People are poor for a variety of reasons. Here are some of the better ones:
1) The are uneducated or undereducated,
2) They make bad personal decisions.
3) They have more children than they can support.
4) They have children out of wedlock.
5) They waste what money they do earn.
6) They have bad expensive habits like smoking, drinking, drugs.
7) They live for today and don't worry about tomorrow.
8) Generations continue and it is the same.

Most of the people have average intelligence but are stuck in the rut their parents and grandparents have created. No hope and no education. Sadly, with social services readily available it will just continue for generations because they have no hope of escaping.

Answer 2

Well when immigrants came here they were poor, they left their homeland and had nothing here, did not speak the language and refused to give up. A lot of them left poverty and came here to poverty, somehow they had the desire to give more to their families and they did, through language barriers and the sheer determination to do better to give their children a better life.
What difference is there now, it's people that do not have a hunger to do better because no matter what you can do a lot better here than the immigrants that left a very poor Europe, where no one cared, Government gave very little in terms of opportunities, here you worked you can buy a house and pay it off. Immigrants were poor once upon a time....poverty will always be here, it is a life lesson and this is what makes a man strong - hunger. If you are poor now this is somewhat of a different story.
Determination goes a long way, it might be physiological , it might be the unwillingness to not work. It might be a person that so desires to be this way. Look at homelessness in Toronto or any major story, we look after them give them work, encourage them to go to shelters THEY DO not go, its incredible.
Immigrants that came here left a country, with no idea what they would face here, building this country through harsh winters who asked them for help.

Answer 3

So I ought to tell my little ones to no longer be triumphant in existence or Obama will tax your efforts? The wealthiest a million % of the inhabitants earn 19 % of the income yet pay 37 % of the income tax. the appropriate 10 % pay 68 % of the tab. the backside 50 %—those under the median income point—now earn 13 % of the income yet pay in basic terms 3 % of the taxes. those are proportions of the income tax on my own and don’t contain payroll taxes for Social protection and Medicare. feels like the rich already pay the main. Why no longer a flat tax? this variety each and every American will pay extremely? Are the rich any much less American than the folk on properly truthful? bypass to internet website, locate out for your self. You Bush haters would be suprised... he's not the undertaking.

Answer 4

I'd like to examine Julie H's answer because it mirrors the one inalienable fact of life: rich or poor, we're all a lot alike.
Julie says, "People are poor for a variety of reasons" and then proceeds to list some of the "better ones".
Well, gee....people are RICH for all the same reasons. Here's some of the 'better ones'. Let's take a look:
1. Just because you're rich doesn't mean you're smart. George W. Bush has a Yale-Harvard education, but also has an I.Q. of 91, the lowest among any U.S. President of the past fifty years (Bill Clinton has the highest I.Q. of those Presidents: 182, and he came from a dirt-poor environment);
2. Rich people make bad personal decisions. Michael Vick is the latest example. Rush Limbaugh is another classic example;
3. Rich people can afford to support their children financially, but often are too 'busy' making money to suport their children emotionally, physically or spiritually;
4. Rich people have children out of wedlock, then slather it all over the gossip magazines as if it's a badge of honor;
5. Rich people waste what money they have on luxury homes, fancy cars, exotic vacations instead of using their wealth to help America's poor, disabled, underprivileged, disadvantaged, sick, elderly, hungry or homeless. That's the government's job; just don't rich people's taxes to do it with;
6. Rich people don't smoke, drink or take drugs? What about Britney Spears, Paris Hilton, Rush Limbaugh, and a host of other celebrities who are in and out of rehab, get caught multiple times with illegal substances, and can't seem to quit their bad habits;
7. Rich people don't live for today? Let's ask Britney Spears, Paris Hilton, etc., etc. - all of whom don't seem to worry one iota about what 'tomorrow' might bring;
8. Generations continue and it's the same old thing. That applies to rich people just as well. Look at the Kennedys: all of them drunks and womanizers. Look at the Bush family dynasty: all of them greedy, selfish, spoiled ne'er-do-wells. Look at Saddam Hussein; then see what cretins his sons turned out to be as they followed in his footsteps.
Come on, Julie H. It seems that rich people and poor people have a lot of human traits in common, the only uncommon denominator being the amount of money they have. -RKO- 08/26/07

Answer 5

In our society money gives you access. Access to the school board, to private school, to lawyers and doctors. The working poor care about themselves buut get ground up in the daily hustle trying to live. If you work 2 jobs for 60 hours per week how do you have time to do anything else but raise your family? When are you going to call and complain or write letters of protest? The question is prejudice and purposely inflammatory to gain responses, thats fine. The sad truth is they are powerless in the system and meaningful unification to gain poweris thwarted by government, media, and the elite. The only hope is to free yourself and your family.

Answer 6

I personally am quite involved with the local schools, the city, the police and other agencies.

We have homeless who live on the beaches, we have people standing at every exit to every shopping center holding their sign, asking for help.

I have written letters, called, and visited.

Some poor people don't want to help themselves, it doesn't matter what they are offered, they are content with their lives, but for those who want the help, we try to provide all we can.

Answer 7

I'm a little guilty of not doing anything about things I don't like, but unless it affects me or mine directly, I usually don't worry about it. Lifes too short to get excited about things we ultimatley can't control.

Answer 8

Everyone knows that poor people don't care a bit about themselves. That's why they're poor!

Answer 9

As we all know as demonstrated by some of the girls in Hollywood, Money doesn't make you rich...

Answer 10

i think only republicans who have walked in the ghetto should be allowed to talk about the poor