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Originally Posted by Robbie
The terminally poor NEVER will become "wealthy" or anything but "poor". They never move up. And it has nothing to do with what govt. can or can't do about it. You can throw money at it all day long and it won't change a thing...matter of fact we have spent trillions of dollars over the last few decades on the "War On Poverty" About the same results as "The War On Drugs"  You're right (finally)...we should be cutting what govt. spends. They are a bunch of greedy crooks spending more in one day than most mega companies profit in a year. |
We agree most poor people will never move up. Most wealthy people do not move down. So it becomes very important as a society for us to set a floor and ceiling on those economic eventualities. No matter what society you live in, some floor and some ceiling will always exist. My belief is that floor ought to provide poor people with food, shelter, clothing, education, security and distractions. Wealthy people should be able to earn as much as they are able to get and do whatever they want with it *so long as* the needs of the least among us are being met effectively.
Any time you get away from the notion that wealthy people need poor people and poor people need wealthy people... you damage the society and harm everyone in it. The only people who do well in that environment are post-nationalists who are no longer tied to any country and frankly they provide little or nothing for society, so helping them is of no interest to me.