Re: The O'Reily Factor show
O'reilly is correct that children need to see what is happening with our poor to help better motivate them to want to succeed. That is only part of the equation though. The reality is working your butt off and getting a degree does not guarantee you anything anymore. There is not an infinite amount of high earning jobs, and even moderate earning jobs are limited. There are counltess amounts of well educated people working grunt jobs because there are countless well educated people. College is great if you are specialized in a field that there is a high demand for. A general degree in whatever only proves you know how to waste a few years delaying the inevitable.<br /><br />What children and young adults need to learn is to decide what they want, and to strive for it, but to also realize they will have to work the grunt jobs to maybe get where they want. We all want our kids to do well, but someone has to pick up the trash. To just tell poor people to get off their arse and get a job is easier said than done. They are faced with the economical fact that most readily available jobs do not pay all of their expenses. Why should they even bother when they know they can get more on welfare? What would you do if you were a single mother who knew she would be placing her kids in less than optimal circumstances by working a menial job when she can just go on the dole? Lets face it. Day care, food, clothes, fuel, housing cannot be paid for with the low wage jobs that are out there. It is easy to blame the poor for being poor. The reality is they are given only bad choices. Yes, in my mind, they should all strive for employment. I am not sticking up for those who choose to stay on welfare, I am just stating facts about what the poor are faced with. <br /><br />I grew up in that situation, where the family went through hard times. My mother made some bad choices, things went bad, but we recovered and pulled out of the misery. Not everyone can do that though. We did it only because the kids grew up and left, leaving only me and my mother. If there would have been more kids, it would have never worked. As far as I am concerned, when it comes to the subject of poverty, you have no opinion unless you have been there. I grow weary of people who have no idea what it is like to go without food *****ing about the lazy poor. If your idea of being poor is only having one car, then shut the f##k up, you don't know squat. If you have ever LIVED out of a car, then you have a basis for comment.<br /><br />In a perfect sunshiny happy world, everybody would work and there would be no poor, but guess what, it will never be like that. You will alway have the rich, and the people who work for the rich. How the hell would anything get done if there wasn't people out there to do the crap jobs? Do you really think society could function when the garbage man makes as much as a lawyer? Get a clue people, society only works when there is poor people.
