Who's responsibility is that? Why can some in those conditions fix the problem themselves, while other's can't? Aren't there a BUNCH of social programs and things out there with the very intent of helping these people fix their situation?
I got bad mouthed on here a few weeks ago for suggesting some of these folks have no desire to put out much of any effort to better themselves and their lives. You say the family life at home is a symptom, I say it's the root cause.
Social programs help, but in this country the private industry has to save it. We don't tax nearly enough on employers to really stop this problem. We completely lack the public infrastructure to do it.
Again.... 42% of the country makes less than $15 an hour. Do you know how **** that is in today's money? It's a travesty. The poverty rate hasn't been adjusted since the 1960's.... Way more people are poor than you think. The reason I say that is because you asked "who's responsibility is that?" to fix the economic situation... There are really only two options... Employers or the government. Either employers pay more, or the government needs to tax them heavily and put in proper public infrastructure.
But its tricky... how do you make them pay more? These are the same people who go hire slaves in China, Vietnam, Indonesia, Mexico, etc to boost profits. It's evil man, it really is. These are not people to be admired. It's not a clever business move for Apple to go over there. It's not a clever business move for every roofer, landscaper, painter, etc to be a desperate foreign worker. It's not a clever business move for tech giants to move to India and tell slaves to change their names to "Steve", and "Bob", etc when they answer the phone to take a support call. It's evil.
I mean, Bernie Sanders literally shamed Amazon, Disney, and Target into doing it. But all they did was make the minimum $15 an hour. They are still poor, they are just less poor. Bernie literally had to show up at Disney World and at an Amazon sweat shop and do TV appearances and shame them into it. They didn't do it out of the goodness in their hearts.
Public opinion also has to be changed on what a human being is worth. You hear arguments that retail jobs are for teenagers, they are just temporary, they are designed to be a stepping down. That just isn't true. You also hear that someone working at Walmart, Target, CVS, etc doesn't deserve a decent wage. Look around town, what do you see? Restaurants, shops, Lowes, Home Depot, Walmart, CVS, Best Buy, Banks, Walgreens, apartment complexes, hospitals, landscaping companies, painters, roofers, etc. A large portion of those people are poor, with few exceptions for medical professionals and managers. But most of that hospital is poor. Clerks, billing people, transporters, janitors, customer service people, housekeepers, food service people, delivery people, low-level medical people (nurse techs, phlebotomist, etc make like $12 an hour), groundskeepers, etc. I saw that the Whirpool manufacturing plant in Oklahoma pays an average of $17 an hour. I could go on and on.
Are there great jobs out there? Yes. But are there a ton of jobs out there to technically make you poor? Absolutely.
Keep in mind, I am not poor.... I am in the top 5% of wage earners in Oklahoma, and have a graduate degree education. In terms of self-study, I have read dozens of books on this topic, and spent countless hours researching issues to form an opinion. So I am not a poor person fighting for govt handouts or anything like that. I have been poor in my life (for a period as a kid), but for most of my life I have not been poor.
Sorry, I am totally ranting at this point.
