Exactly. I am saying we don’t have poverty. Americans don’t truly know what being poor is really like. If they do then it is completely self inflicted.
Ah, so every homeless veteran living poverty is in the US is there due to “completely self inflicted” reasons? Cool...
Funny talking about American “poverty” while I am literally typing this message from one of the most economically depressed countries on planet earth where I haven’t heard a single person blaming anyone for their life’s problems. We don’t have poverty. The people here have true poverty.
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Yes, the homeless people living in the streets in the US in a snowstorm “don’t have real poverty.” Do you make a habit of reminding homeless people that at least they’re not living in “real poverty” every time you see them asking for money? Tell them that “it could be worse, you could be in Africa?”
Yes that’s apparent by our poor peoples obesity rate, their love of 1500 dollar iPhones, 300 air jordans, and 600 dollar a month smoking and drinking habits. We don’t have a poverty problem, we have a money management problem. Probably because parents don’t raise their kids anymore and they leave it up to the indoctrination centers to pump their kids full of liberal garbage and blame rich and politicians for all their problems.
Oh yes, the average poor person in America has a new iPhone, Jordans, and smoked that much. There’s not one single mother or father raising kids working two jobs in the country. Nope. Not a single one. It’s all poor spending habits. Yep. All of it.
If the govt should have any role it would be to generate their own power. Not command private companies how to run theirs. Why doesn’t the govt have any interest in electric generation?
I’m just not a fan of peoples lack of personal responsibility and always looking for someone to blame for all their problems. Before there was poverty, currency, governments, and etc. people survived. Maybe if the govt didn’t create an entire population of people completely dependent on them we wouldn’t have this problem. They can teach little kids about having sex but can’t teach them how to start a fire?
You going to start a fire on the tenth floor of an apartment? You going to keep a healthy supply of wood for the winter in your one bedroom apartment on the tenth floor? Kind of privileged of you to assume everyone is a homeowner and/or has sufficient space to store that much wood to be prepared.
And before muscleupcrohn jumps in to crucify me, I am playing devils advocate here. I don’t have real skin in the game because I am always prepared. Our house did just fine because we are prepared for this type of stuff as should any homeowner that lives in this region.
So the guy living in an apartment on the fourth floor should have had a generator or some wood go burn to stay prepared? It’s the job of the little guy to be prepared when they’re already living paycheck to paycheck, but there’s zero blame on the government for being unprepared? For not winterizing their infrastructure because profit was paramount over preparedness and safety. Got it...
Generators, propane, wood, fuel, have all been available to purchase long before this storm hit. Living in TX and OK we are accustomed to freak weather. If you aren’t prepared ahead of time then you simply aren’t paying attention. My house was just fine throughout this ordeal. The cost of unpreparedness is higher commodity cost.
So a lower or middle class person who wasn’t prepared with a backup for an emergency is to blame, but the government is not to blame when they were unprepared as well? Their infrastructure (paid for by taxpayers I should remind you) was unprepared for storms, THEY weren’t “paying attention.” Or more like they were so full of greed they prioritized profits over safety and preparedness.