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Dawnia
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I get the pleasure of seeing some of these same people from the legal side…through civil rights complaints or removal of children or criminal charges. All of them have the exact same attitude…“it’s someone elses fault” attitude. The only ones that I ever saw get anywhere took responsibility and realized that if they wanted things to change, they would have to take the actions to change them.Ringil you are in this area so maybe have perspective. If you look at the causes for poverty in this country, most are self induced: unwed motherhood, not completing high school, substance abuse. How do we provide incentive to avoid these roads to nowhere rather than pay those who are already a long way down the path? I think so much of this has become part of the culture. By the time you get to the third or fourth generation, it’s so ingrained that people don’t see any other path.
Volunteering in various social services organizations I saw this all of the time. It’s as if people caught in this mentality simply don’t imagine any other way to live. You can talk to them all you want about getting a GED, getting off drugs, not having another baby and their eyes glaze over. We have to get to them a lot earlier I guess.
But getting back to the thread, I truly believe that the focus on government solutions for individual problems just makes these problems worse. The ‘War on Poverty’ isn’t working.
Lisa