In the United States, the richest country in the world, why are there so many poor people?

Question

Why the heck are there so many people without health insurance? Or people who can't pay for their education? Or people who've lost their home because they couldn't pay their heightened mortgage payments and got no help from a corporatist minded leadership? How can one call a country "free" when these types of things come to pass?

Answer 1

Rich people do not have American values. They drape themselves with the flag but they don't believe it.

Answer 2

Because the system of governing is set up that way . . .
a nation full of millonares would mean every bodies
doing just fine, you know nobody hate's any one,
and every bodie's equal, but then what good would
that be? . . .

who would be left to control making the powerful feel even more powerful because of it . . .

ther's always gonna be a few who would rather ruel
in hell than serve in heaven . . .

Poverty perpetuate's inequality, to be unequal is to be
weak, to be weak mean's you can be manipilated . . .

If you started your own country, what would be the best
way to keep the riff raff out but to make things so high
priced that only a few could afford it, and what better
way to control the riff raff then to accomendate people's
cravings, i beleive it's called supply and demand, and people fall right into the trap, credit card's make great
tools of manipulation's . . .

In actuality the term freedom is an illusion, because nothing
is realy free if it were there'd be no consequences . . .

yeh i know if there were no freedom of speech i wouldn't be
allowed to express myself in this manner, but then on the
other side of the coin, if there were no inequality perhaps
we wouldn't be needing to ban that thing we claim is so
precious and free in the first place would we now? . . .

As for health insurance and education, how easy we forget
there was a time when those things were available but as
with anything that get's put through hell and not appreciated
it soon become's antiquated and eventually dissapears . . .

I mean in a nation where people sue the medical profession on a constant basis,and being a teacher has nowadays become synonomus with being a cop who the hell would wanna be a teacher or a doctor any more amongst other thing's, like bitching about high gas prices and yet driving mini airplanes called SUV's.

Job's are outsourced i wonder why, when people complain about poor wages and yet never realizing it ain't poor wages
but more like poor money managment . . .

Bottom line, it's a culmination of thing's but one thing for sure
if there were a profit in equality the word poverty would finnaly dissapear from the english language, but don't
count on it happening any time soon . . .

As for the government, just keep in mind who put's them there . . .

Answer 3

There are nevertheless some older people left who did get an exceptionally stable preparation. additionally years in the past from an early age people have been taught ethics and the persons coaching additionally had sturdy ethics. Now they're taught to be very careful what they say in case they offend somebody. that would not open the strategies for researching. i do no longer mean toddlers must be authorized to insult people yet very often harmless toddlers are reprimanded for merely asking an uncomplicated question and/or making an obvious assertion without malice. additionally further and added the lecturers and professors inject their very own politics into the lecture room. it is incorrect. Our youngsters do no longer bypass to college to benefit politics. they choose a sturdy understanding of the fundamentals so they might build on them and concentration on their careers quite than their political activism.

Answer 4

We do have some of the richest people living in our country but they are just a small percentage.
We are a capitalist country where if things are going your way everything is great but if you hit hard times, you soon find out the pitfalls of selfish capitalism.
we are not truly free, I don't think there is such a place on earth. It is more like we are free to rip others off without paying for it.So many business and corps. rip people off and steal from them all legally.The little people haven't got much hope.

Answer 5

It's not the government's responsibility to provide a standard of living beyond what people can afford. I live in a modest home myself because you never know what the future may bring. Many of these homeowners already had a risky credit history; yet, many bought brand-new homes they really couldn't afford. That's not being poor; it's being greedy.

Answer 6

We’re free to choose what happens in our lives. It sounds like you want less freedom and more government control.

People don’t have health insurance because they choose not to (yes, I know real people who CHOOSE not to buy insurance they can afford) or feel they cannot afford it. It’s call freedom: you don’t have to buy it, and no one is required to hand it to you.

Who can’t pay for their education? Just about everyone I know has a debt to some student loan consolidation service, but we have our diplomas.

And mortgages, well, the gravity of the situation has been way overblown by the evening news, but what you’re seeing is freedom in action. The lenders were free to offer the loans, the signers were free not to read or understand the loans they agreed to take on. Homeowners were also free to cash out every single last dime of equity in their homes to spend on all kinds of crap, and now the banks are free to take those homes back and sell them to people who will pay their bills.

Answer 7

America is a monopolized country and the government cant always agree on certain laws, bills and etc.

Answer 8

Because the few have the most while what's left over is shared amongst the many.

Answer 9

We are free to excell or fail. Our choice. Nobodys fault. Blessed Be