reply to post by Alxandro
Dude, you really need some help and need to start thinking outside of the box. Why work for someone when this country offers many the opportunity to
start their own business?
You can only start your own business if you have good credit, which most poor people have destroyed before they turn 21, by trying to survive.
You claim there are some very rich people who are lazy, and spend all their time plotting to keep the poor people enslaved, but why allow them to do
so and run the show. Just say no
Say no to what, the entire US Government, the global economy? The whole thing is set up like Las Vegas. It's all been set up just for them to get our
money.
I am not saying poor people are stupid. Blacks are not the only people that are poor so get real. If you think it is a hopeless battle then you have
given up and you deserve to get all the pity you ask for if that is what you wish, but pity has no real cash value.
I never said that black people
are the only poor people. I don't know where you got that from, but you must've read something wrong, or out
of context perhaps.
And as far as cash value, I suggest you look into where money actually comes from. American curreny no longer has value, it is strictly based on debt.
It's called fractional reserve banking.
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Please explain what you mean when you state that you have a problem when someone with money doesn't do anything else but pay for legislation that
increases their profits to the detriment of the people.
Most of the laws that are passed or enforced in this country today have nothing to do with the good of the people. They are there strictly to increase
the profits of those who already have enough money to influence legislation. The people no longer have a say. It makes no difference who one decides
to vote for, they're all on the take.
You claim it is the wealthy who try to keep YOU focused on these amazing stories of people who overcame the odds to become a success?
That's bull jive!
Oh, is it now. How many poor people have you known? And how many are not poor today? Be honest now. Let us take Mexico for example. For every
immigrant who came to America and managed to open their own business, there are thousands more still starving in Mexico. And out of these
"successful" business owners, how many actually own the property AND the business. And I do mean
own it, as opposed to paying off the bank
who owns it in hopes of one day actually owning it.
You need to define what you mean by wealth because I've heard of many different stories of success that had nothing to do with the wealthy. They all
had to deal with small business. That may not be your idea of wealth but hell it got them out of poverty and most of them didn't just stop there
either. Just imagine all that time you've wasted convincing yourself "you can't".
True wealth really only exists in the top one-percent of the American population. No matter what you do, or where you go, ultimately you work for
them.
And where will these small business owners be when the economy takes a dump? And again, do they even actually own the business?
I have not convinced myself of any such thing as "I can't." What I
can do is point out the injustices of the system, and the real causes of
poverty.
Maybe you are expecting too much because it's true, money can't buy you happiness, but it all starts with attitude.
I dunno, I was pretty happy when I had money. And I would have been happy to have more. It had nothing to do with attitude. I am not an outright
un-happy person today, but the things that make me unhappy are caused by a lack of money.
You say that for every person you see who actually escapes poverty, there are thousands who have died trying or are spending the rest of their lives
in prison? Again, you have it wrong because you seem to think that escaping poverty means you have to take and steal from others.
No, you have it wrong. I never said anything about having to steal to escape poverty. Let me give you an example of a friend of mine. (He was
Dominican, not black, if that matters.) He was doing quite well in school, hoping to get a scholorship. In fact, there was a woman in the suburbs who
said she would be his guardian the following year so he could go to a better high-school here upstate. The problem was that he lived in a very violent
neighborhood in Brooklyn. On his way to school, he was literally robbed and shot for his lunch money. He shot back, with his own unregistered firearm.
He has been in prison ever since, serving a 25-year sentence along with a 15-year sentence for the two people he shot, and I think it was 3 years on
the gun charge. There are thousands of stories like this.
I agree that there is no excuse for having one single person be homeless, or to go hungry, in the richest and most powerful nation on the planet, but
again why should my tax money pay for those that prefer to think "they can't, therefore they won't"?
Why should my tax dollars go to people who are here illegally, taking jobs away from people who most certainly
will do those jobs? Why should
my tax dollars go into the record profits of the oil companies liek Exxon/Mobil? Why should my tax dollars go to imperialistic gains of a criminal
administration?
I'll tell you what. I'd rather a bum sat in his tax-dollar funded apartment drinking all day, than having to smell him in front of the grocery
store, or watching him burn to death in the park.
I will return shortly, to reply to the rest of your post...
