I'm not just talking about people on welfare. I'm talking about poor people in general. There are too many that don't work hard, don't get educated or pursue a marketable skill. Too many that have children when they can't afford to raise them. Too many that don't raise their kids right and make sure they don't fall into the same cycle. I think there are millions of poor people that are poor because they are too lazy to change their situation.
Oh come on...there are millions of people whose acquired skilset(s), specialized education, and training were wiped out by outsourcing, offshoring, technological advancements, and automation/robotics. Some were even the result of wage/age discrimination, as well as cheaper H1B labor. I have read accounts of pink-slipped white collar workers whose replacements had to be trained physically/virtually, else were threatened with losing their severance packages.
Many US-based businesses have been the recipients of awards and recognition for their successes in outsourcing or "globalizing" their IT departments by their corporate peers, as well as foreign-based businesses who specialize in assisting with outsourcing/offshoring blue and white collar labor.
Those who have managed to pay off their earlier student loans, and who can afford the increasing costs of retraining or acquiring new skills or "reeducation" tend to be older and less desirable b/c of their increased use of health insurance and shorter paths to retirement bennies.
I chose to delay getting married, and have had no children, b/c I recognized the 80s for what they were....a yearly preview to the Randian 21st century of corporate capitalist greed, Republican arrogance, and Oligarch avarice. You were still in high school for the first half, and eventually joined the USAF, or from what I have gathered from your previous posts.
When I finally did marry @ almost 44, one of the first things that we were told during the obligatory half-day of premaritial prep, was that ~50% of all US marriages end in divorce. No way was I going to risk becoming yet another child-support statistic with those shitty odds, much less be able to afford supporting two separate living arrangements AND the costs of further schooling/retraining...although in our case, we have beaten them for almost 20 years....so far.
