Economics of the poor because the poor have it easy
(Not reading for everyone)
How can someone who is never been poor would even know who and what the poor is?
There are many types of poor and levels. There is the homeless that you might see in the street because they have exhausted their lives in a society that have failed them. There is also the mentally unstable that cannot keep up with the responsibilities of running a household and then there is the many levels of working or non working families, single mothers, single fathers, singles, sick or disabled, elderly. We sometimes say poor and people that listen to that word would have a preconceive picture of what it means but that is just based on a bias of lack of information or experience.
Let’s pick on someone
For the Republicans, which is a group of people who worry about loosing what they got and believing on something called an American Dream, they believe that by skipping government regulations and just following their dream guts, family history or education can one day obtain something they feel they haven’t got at the moment. Some say that they want their children to have it easier than they did or just a better life.
Amazing thing in life is that if you want to see the future all you have to do is look at the past. Shocking! it repeats itself. If you don’t know that is because your history needs refreshing. If you want to see how your children will do just look at the children of people like you today. Their parents said the same things you say. It’s amazing at people that think they are working for the tomorrow when they are really working for today. There is no tomorrow. Tomorrow we will be dead. They don’t realize this is a limited journey and when we are done, we are done. Even if you believe in the hereafter you know that it cannot be anything like today. Why Am I bringing the hereafter or non hereafter to talk simple economics? and why pick on the Republicans? Fair enough!
First, Im picking on the Republicans first because Ive been one and know them well. But better than that, you might agree with me that this is a group of people with very similar ideas of how things are and how they should be. Agree with that statement? It’s pretty general but it applies to this group better because wether you call yourself anything else you are not as well organize in thought as they are. I will prove it to you: That is why they win elections even when most of the country disagree with them. Right now we have every demographic against them with the exception of men. Yet they have the house in congress and if the democrats keep the senate on the next elections it will be by a small margin. Yes, they win elections , they are organize in thought. Their thought I described above.
Secondly, what is the hereafter have to do with economics? Everyhting. If you are a believer you will see the world through what you have been taught through your religion first or second. If you are not a believer, you view of the world is seen by your own eyes and how well informed you are. If you a re not well informed then you are a loose cannon. You will believe even in somethings the republicans believe as a group “No Climate Change” “You should always show your power” etc.
Do you see my point? But why the economics part again?
My thought about the economics of the poor and americans is that either you believe what your peers have told you or you believe in what you have seen, experienced or have been informed about absent of the religion view point.
My point being that both sides are short of knowledge of what the poor is. If we really knew the poor, there would no poor. Everyone would have at least the minimum to buy their food(no caviar or champagne) but tuna fish and beer is fine. Would have shelter not a mansion but an apartment livable, health care equal to congress, police or private protection and an education of 12th grade and at least 2 yrs of college. That is my view of what the poor that can accommodate this life style should have.
Who pays for it? Everyone. We know that this is our journey and we should make sure we as humanity are in the same page, particularly in a rich nation such as this. We don’t have the money some would say? What an anemic old argument? Who makes the money? Who spends the money and how? The how is the most important part. We even have money to one day go to the moon! Oops, we’ve been there. Add up the money spent in two wars of the past four. See if that is enough to change the living standards of this country. So you can even go to war. Im giving you 2 out of 4. You can’t take that away because that would be impossible. I know that because I know some history and there has to be war!
These are my economics of the poor so watch out if I ever run. No, actually this is something that has to start from grass roots with the three branches of government in unison to change the nation. It would take a revolution you know the: “ I’M sick and tired and I can’t take it anymore” from the middle class. The poor does not have the power and it never will and if it gets it throws it away like, Egypt, Russia, Libya, Iraq, Iran, Cuba, Venezuela, etc., etc.
The following thoughts about the poor are by Robin Marty in “The poor have it easy”
How can someone who is never been poor would even know who and what the poor is?
There are many types of poor and levels. There is the homeless that you might see in the street because they have exhausted their lives in a society that have failed them. There is also the mentally unstable that cannot keep up with the responsibilities of running a household and then there is the many levels of working or non working families, single mothers, single fathers, singles, sick or disabled, elderly. We sometimes say poor and people that listen to that word would have a preconceive picture of what it means but that is just based on a bias of lack of information or experience.
Let’s pick on someone
For the Republicans, which is a group of people who worry about loosing what they got and believing on something called an American Dream, they believe that by skipping government regulations and just following their dream guts, family history or education can one day obtain something they feel they haven’t got at the moment. Some say that they want their children to have it easier than they did or just a better life.
Amazing thing in life is that if you want to see the future all you have to do is look at the past. Shocking! it repeats itself. If you don’t know that is because your history needs refreshing. If you want to see how your children will do just look at the children of people like you today. Their parents said the same things you say. It’s amazing at people that think they are working for the tomorrow when they are really working for today. There is no tomorrow. Tomorrow we will be dead. They don’t realize this is a limited journey and when we are done, we are done. Even if you believe in the hereafter you know that it cannot be anything like today. Why Am I bringing the hereafter or non hereafter to talk simple economics? and why pick on the Republicans? Fair enough!
First, Im picking on the Republicans first because Ive been one and know them well. But better than that, you might agree with me that this is a group of people with very similar ideas of how things are and how they should be. Agree with that statement? It’s pretty general but it applies to this group better because wether you call yourself anything else you are not as well organize in thought as they are. I will prove it to you: That is why they win elections even when most of the country disagree with them. Right now we have every demographic against them with the exception of men. Yet they have the house in congress and if the democrats keep the senate on the next elections it will be by a small margin. Yes, they win elections , they are organize in thought. Their thought I described above.
Secondly, what is the hereafter have to do with economics? Everyhting. If you are a believer you will see the world through what you have been taught through your religion first or second. If you are not a believer, you view of the world is seen by your own eyes and how well informed you are. If you a re not well informed then you are a loose cannon. You will believe even in somethings the republicans believe as a group “No Climate Change” “You should always show your power” etc.
Do you see my point? But why the economics part again?
My thought about the economics of the poor and americans is that either you believe what your peers have told you or you believe in what you have seen, experienced or have been informed about absent of the religion view point.
My point being that both sides are short of knowledge of what the poor is. If we really knew the poor, there would no poor. Everyone would have at least the minimum to buy their food(no caviar or champagne) but tuna fish and beer is fine. Would have shelter not a mansion but an apartment livable, health care equal to congress, police or private protection and an education of 12th grade and at least 2 yrs of college. That is my view of what the poor that can accommodate this life style should have.
Who pays for it? Everyone. We know that this is our journey and we should make sure we as humanity are in the same page, particularly in a rich nation such as this. We don’t have the money some would say? What an anemic old argument? Who makes the money? Who spends the money and how? The how is the most important part. We even have money to one day go to the moon! Oops, we’ve been there. Add up the money spent in two wars of the past four. See if that is enough to change the living standards of this country. So you can even go to war. Im giving you 2 out of 4. You can’t take that away because that would be impossible. I know that because I know some history and there has to be war!
These are my economics of the poor so watch out if I ever run. No, actually this is something that has to start from grass roots with the three branches of government in unison to change the nation. It would take a revolution you know the: “ I’M sick and tired and I can’t take it anymore” from the middle class. The poor does not have the power and it never will and if it gets it throws it away like, Egypt, Russia, Libya, Iraq, Iran, Cuba, Venezuela, etc., etc.
The following thoughts about the poor are by Robin Marty in “The poor have it easy”
Being poor. It means stretching a dollar to be sure that your children can eat every day. It means deciding whether you can skip a car payment or a mortgage payment this month, because one more missed electricity bill will get the power turned off. It means ignoring the pain in your chest because even if you have insurance you can’t cover the deductible for the doctor’s visit, or skipping your medication because the copay is just a little too much. It’s trying to decide between buying a shirt without a hole for a job interview or having the gas you need just to get to it.
And, according to most Republicans, that’s all “having it easy.”
A new study conducted by Pew Research says that over 75 percent of those who identify as conservative believe that the poor have it “easy.” “More than three quarters of conservative Americans – those in the steadfast conservative, business conservative, and young outsider typology groups — agree that ‘poor people have it easy because they can get government benefits without doing anything,’” reports Wonk Blog. “Only seven percent of steadfast conservatives say that the poor ‘have hard lives.’”
There’s a number of issues with that misconception, ranging from the idea that government benefits are in any way adequate or that they are easy to get. For the last few years we’ve seen a number of states cut benefits to the poor, providing less as well as making them more difficult to apply for. TANF (Temporary Aid to Needy Families) and WIC programs are always first to disappear in a budget crisis, such as the 2013 government shut down, and TANF has recently been cut in some states to give money to crisis pregnancy centers instead. A refusal in a number of red states to expand Medicaid has left tens of thousands in a gap without health insurance. States that are attempting to force welfare recipients toundergo mandatory drug tests prior to getting benefits are demanding the poor pay for their own drug tests out of pocket, and even when people do receive assistance, they are forced to get rid of every asset they have first, thereby dooming themselves to a cycle of poverty they are unlikely to ever end.
Still, for many conservatives, every cent is a handout that came straight out of their pocket, hurting them and helping the “lazy” poor. As the comic strip Tom the Dancing Bug so eloquently put it, every person getting assistance is a “Lucky Ducky,” taking advantage of the hard work of real Americans keeping the economy going.
Inherently, in the conservative mindset, poor and lazy are inter-changeable, and one simply would not be poor if he or she would work harder. It’s a belief system that ignores the basic realities that poverty imposes one generation after the next, as well as the given disadvantages that cycle on top of each other such as violence, lack of food and medical care, lack of permanence in housing, lack of access to good schools and quality education, and, because of all of these things, lack of access to good jobs with living wages.
The poor do not have it easy, by any means. In reality, it is a lie that conservatives tell themselves to justify their own hoarding of wealth, dismantling of the social safety net, and cruelty to those struggling to make ends meet. By convincing themselves that the poor have it “easy” and that benefits are ample and simple to obtain, they can ignore those who are truly suffering by convincing themselves that it is moral or spiritual weakness, and not their own policies, that have caused others to need help.
The question isn’t how 75 percent of conservatives can be delusional enough to believe the poor have it easy. The real question is how they will sleep at night once they finally realize they are wrong.
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Adam Gonzalez
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