Poverty

We have the richest poor in the world. And that's a good thing.

We have the richest poor in the world. Having done a fair amount of social work (and being in many "poor people's" homes on cases). Many of our poor struggle over issues like whether they should drop their cable TV or go out a few times a week less. While much of the rest of the world's poor is struggling with buying shoes or getting up to 2 meals a day.

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~ Aristotle Sabouni
Created: 2019-07-01

Income inequality - The left pretends that we're getting poorer by ignoring that our Real GDP has doubled. Our grandparents didn't have cellphones, gene-therapy for cancer, had one car, 3 generations lived in 900 sq. ft. homes, they didn't take as many vacations, the rest of the war wrecked globe wasn't competing with us (yet), and social programs and taxes/regulations hadn't driven up the costs of everything.
Poverty cause - There's of course no single causes for poverty, but there are a few really strong causes that could be addressed: Single Parenthood, Welfare, Education, Culture. Trying to admit those problems, and address them, and empower individuals with the authority and responsibility to better themselves, would help more than all the hand-outs and free money.
There are no American Poor - When you compare the U.S.'s poor to the rest of the world, they're middle class or rich. That's not to say they don't have it worse than other Americans, or that we shouldn't help. But the global median income is $2,920. A full-time minimum wage worker would be ≈5 times that amount, not counting all the subsidies and social safety nets value.
UK is poorer than all the states - If Britain were a State, it'd be poorer than any other state in the U.S. This is especially bad because Britain is the richest Kingdom in the United Kingdom. This is based on US figures for GDP per state divided by population to come up with a GDP per capita figure -- then compare that to Britain (or the UK). Then add in the purchasing power parity adjustments.
Welfare - Johnson's "War on Poverty" added welfare: paying people to not work or get married, and have/keep kids out of wedlock. Oh and it punished people that tried to get off of the dole. Shocker of shockers, you get what you incentivize, and welfare got more people to not work, have kids out of wedlock, and it hurt the kids, families, and society at large.
Welfare destroyed the Black Family - Since Johnson's "war on poverty", black babies born to single mom's rose from 24% to 72% (it also tripled for whites from 3% to 10%). Single moms are 90% of TANF recipients, 81% of homeless families are single mom's, only 40% have full time jobs. Income for single mother families is only one third the median for married couple families. (20% receive welfare and 40% receive food at the federal level, more at the state and local). Paying Women to help raise their kids encouraged more women to have more kids without husbands and live as dependents on the state. And we got more poverty, crime, and morally rudderless humans as a result.
Welfare trap - One of the problems is that there's traps to hold folks down. When a single mom is better off with a $29K a year job (on Welfare) than making $69K a year, you know welfare is a trap. The system as designed by the left to reward failure and punish those trying to climb out. And they will attack anyone that tries to fix that.

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Welfare
Johnson's "War on Poverty" added welfare: paying people to not work or get married, and have/keep kids out of wedlock.

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