JakeFromWI
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Almost goes without saying, the main cause of "poor" is lack of education, whether it is the fault of the kid, the parents, the schools, whatever.
There are several ways to succeed, but almost always the best way is thru education.
Many poor don't see the value of education, many rich just want to pay for their own kids and let the rest remain ignorant.
We have had so much progress in technology in the last few decades, it is understandable that the education system is lagging in its responsibilities. Hopefully the public will acknowledge that and demand more from govt. Certainly the curriculum needs massaging.
More from the government? I think the real argument here is that the government needs to stay out of this mess. The mess being the rich getting more and the poor getting less. The government should have nothing to do with the theft of the wealth of this nation. They need to fight in Afghanistan and protect us there.
The CEO to employee ratio of pay increases every year. But we argue that they deserve more than us. That's fine. But not a proportional increase to the average worker's salary. More for them and less for us is not OK. Does anyone get this concept. I'm not saying more for them is bad...I'm saying more for them, while we see less is.
We look at these statistics and argue hard work, no work, education blah blah.
Because Jim and Alice Walton work 200,000 times harder than I do. Or maybe they were educated 200,000 times longer at a school 200,000 times better than Marquette University.