A Theist's post highlight a major flaw in the conservative thought process, which is the ability to simplify highly complex issues. Living in poverty means you are lazy, and there are no other factors in play. Forget the lack of education and the fact that poverty is a cycle in which conservatives seem determined to hold the son responsible for the sins of the father. The proper motivation to work hard requires the opportunity to actually benefit from it. Why would you want to work when you're surrounded by people that are born, live, and die in poverty, and the ones that do work hard have a miniscule chance of escaping? When you're going to a school with a 25% graduation rate, how could you be expected to have the skills to function in the real world?
And I'm not so blind as to think that there are no lazy people and that everyone in poverty simply deserves to suck the government teat. No, I think there should be measures in place to ensure that those that are receiving assistance truly need and deserve it, and we need to focus on good education for those in poverty if we wish to end it.
And I'm not so blind as to think that there are no lazy people and that everyone in poverty simply deserves to suck the government teat. No, I think there should be measures in place to ensure that those that are receiving assistance truly need and deserve it, and we need to focus on good education for those in poverty if we wish to end it.
Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own - Bertrand Russell