Quick Links
Calendar
| Sun | Mon | Tue | Wed | Thu | Fri | Sat |
Categories
Archives
Comments powered by
Links
Technorati
XML/RSS Feed
Statistics
Total entries in this blog:
Total entries in this category:
Published On: Apr 12, 2006 06:35 AM
Total entries in this category:
Published On: Apr 12, 2006 06:35 AM
Why people are poor
Are people in this country really poor?
Compare our poor to the poor in India, or China, or Africa.
We can at least get health care if we are dying. We don't lie in a gutter covered in flies. We can trot down to the local food bank; they must scrounge through sewage and garbage in said gutters. I could go on -
But more importantly is - WHY are we poor? Let's take an acquaintance of mine. She has no real job, but works part-time handing out samples in grocery stores. Her live-in partner owns the trailer they live in. He is on some kind of disability, I think because he has lost vision in one eye, but can still ride their expensive motorcycles. He has filed bankruptcy, but still has a home, a truck, and 2 motorcycles. Nice ones, as I see it. They get free health care on an Indian reservation because he is part native of some tribe, yet she bitches about not having health insurance. She sold some property and paid off a few of their bills, then promptly ran her CC's back up buying a big-screen TV and some new living room furniture. I don't have motorcycles, a big screen TV, or new living room furniture - mine came from an estate sale after we moved here.
They own some kind of timeshare; we vacation a day at a time by going diving locally for the cost of gas and gas. They got a free cruise with their timeshare, then couldn't afford to pay the port taxes so weren't able to use it. She bitches about the pollution and global warming, yet sees no issues with the cruise ship industry - or with taking pleasure trips on a motorcycle - with dozens of others - isn't there a bit of greenhouse gas emitted there?
Cruise ships. A rant for another day........
Compare our poor to the poor in India, or China, or Africa.
We can at least get health care if we are dying. We don't lie in a gutter covered in flies. We can trot down to the local food bank; they must scrounge through sewage and garbage in said gutters. I could go on -
But more importantly is - WHY are we poor? Let's take an acquaintance of mine. She has no real job, but works part-time handing out samples in grocery stores. Her live-in partner owns the trailer they live in. He is on some kind of disability, I think because he has lost vision in one eye, but can still ride their expensive motorcycles. He has filed bankruptcy, but still has a home, a truck, and 2 motorcycles. Nice ones, as I see it. They get free health care on an Indian reservation because he is part native of some tribe, yet she bitches about not having health insurance. She sold some property and paid off a few of their bills, then promptly ran her CC's back up buying a big-screen TV and some new living room furniture. I don't have motorcycles, a big screen TV, or new living room furniture - mine came from an estate sale after we moved here.
They own some kind of timeshare; we vacation a day at a time by going diving locally for the cost of gas and gas. They got a free cruise with their timeshare, then couldn't afford to pay the port taxes so weren't able to use it. She bitches about the pollution and global warming, yet sees no issues with the cruise ship industry - or with taking pleasure trips on a motorcycle - with dozens of others - isn't there a bit of greenhouse gas emitted there?
Cruise ships. A rant for another day........
Posted: Sun - April 9, 2006 at 12:02 AM