02-21-2010, 02:45 PM
(02-21-2010, 10:31 AM)Ordinary Peephole Wrote: The fact you think anybody would "choose" extreme poverty confirms to me what a fucking idiot I have always suspected you to be.
You think life is a big crap shoot? People with jobs are just lucky and people who don't work are just not lucky?
You think I haven't seen poverty and chose something different? I have had bad situations followed by the rolling of pennies. I had two choices then; find a way out or sink into it.
Abject poverty is a way of life. A chosen way of life. Maybe not consciously, but by action. Situational poverty can happen to anybody, but generational poverty is learned (You may apply this to the post where you alluded I know nothing of poverty because you think I don't. I have had actual training in the area, so FU).
The 'Give a man a fish' proverb is an old one. This isn't a new problem.
Can I get anybody from West Virginia to speak on this? You have seen the difference with your own eyes. You can explain about trailers with tires on top and rotted steps and toys strewn around the yard with brand new $65,000 trucks in the front. You have seen generational poverty.