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Do you think ending POVERTY is easy as I do?

Welfare and other programs often offer more benefits so people are hesitant to work when they know they will work hard to make less. The best incentive then would be to RAISE the min wage and offer a better health care system to MAKE IT MUCH MORE PROFITABLE TO WORK! WHAT IS SO HARD ABOUT THAT CONCEPT?

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  • YRU4IT
    Lv 6
    7 years ago

    One day, the government will have raised the minimum wage so high that everyone will be in the 39.6% tax bracket! This will occur due to massive inflation of goods caused by a currency depreciation. And poverty will be worse than ever!!!

  • 7 years ago

    There is something missing there. Why would raising the minimum wage and offering health care make any difference? That's all for people working now.

    Perhaps you forgot we have huge hordes of overpopulating excess labor now flooding the labor markets. Contrary to lies from sleazy employers wanting to pay less for skilled workers there is no shortage of workers of any kind. The labor market is flooded with ever more coming.

    There is no room for the poorly skilled welfare people regardless of artificial wage increases. Skilled people wanting full time work are now filling the part time and temporary jobs because their job market is overloaded with excess workers.

    "Greedy capitalists" do suck workers blood but they suck it from the floor. Overpopulating excess labor cuts each others' throats by undercutting each others' wages. The poor make themselves even poorer that way while they help make the rich richer supplying them with ever cheaper labor.

    Source(s): For decades I studied philosophies, cultures, and social institutions. I began that because of confusion resulting from my military experience under the shadow of neo-Marxist anti-military and anti-capitalism indoctrination in the universities. I continue a forty year quest looking for some truth in the pile of stinking crap a wide variety of bigots made by blaming people or practices they don't like while excusing people or practices they do like regardless of where the fault really lies.
  • 7 years ago

    Its not hard, its to much like being right for this world...

  • Anonymous
    7 years ago

    I don't get drug tested by my employer

    He is not a fascist

  • 7 years ago

    It is already over. Read this.

    "Air Conditioning, Cable TV, and an Xbox: What is Poverty in the United States Today?"

    http://www.heritage.org/research/reports/2011/07/w...

  • Sean
    Lv 7
    7 years ago

    The destruction of the too big to fail outsourcing oligopoly, which would return to the American people their open free economy, providing endless opportunities, would end impoverishment for all those who choose to take advantage of it.

  • Anonymous
    7 years ago

    1. less than 2% of American workers make Minimum Wage. Less than 5% of hourly workers make Min Wage. So you're not going to accomplish a lot.

    2. "better health care' ? They are already on Medicaid.. the very same thing they were on BEFORE Obama care even existed.

    3. You will never end Poverty. There will always be those who fail, always will be those who are satisfied living off the taxpayer.

    If you think you can end poverty, the last flight to Utopia is now boarding. Gate 11

    The single most punitive tax we have is the payroll taxes on the Poor. If you want to help them, pass the fair tax. Gross pay = net pay. A HUGE increase for the poor.

  • ?
    Lv 7
    7 years ago

    Corporate American does not want to pay more and lose its profit margin. And any kind of real health care reform has been fought by the lobbyists like crazy. And most who get welfare are either disabled or have small children they can not leave alone, so it would be hard to get them employed. So, things are not that easy.

  • Anonymous
    7 years ago

    In a nutshell, the problem with humanity is not so much one of ideology - this or that religious, political, social, or economic doctrine - but rather one of blood. That is, that a great deal (possibly 90% or more) of a person's intelligence and character is determined by their DNA, which determines the structure of their brain before they are born. This is why Blacks, as a group, do the things they do. This is why Sweden, despite being "socialist" (a system which we are told often leads to economic stagnation), is a far better place to live than, say, "capitalist" (a system which we are told should always lead to economic prosperity) Nigeria. Of course, it is true that bad political/economic systems can ruin a country with otherwise "good" people (e.g., communist Russia), but if the genetics of a people are "bad" it's pretty much hopeless regardless of the political/economic system (e.g., Africa). This is not to say that all Whites are "good", or that all Blacks are "bad". And it is true that social programs can teach Blacks and help them to some extent. However, in the long term, the quality of life of a nation is almost entirely determined by the quality of the mental character of the average person. If Blacks or Mexicans become a majority, then they will not be able to maintain the White man's social, cultural and economic systems because they do not have to minds needed to do so. Most Whites in the United States know what happens when too many Blacks get together in a community, city or country - they "pull themselves down". So, as the United States and Europe are flooded with Browns and Blacks, eventually the quality of life in these once great lands will become like that of the third world regardless of the social/economic/political system. And, not to be "racist", but we Whites can't have that. That's not fair to us and our families. I know it isn't "fair" of the world for Blacks to have to be born with such a disadvantage, but the first rule in wanting to help them is that you don't become like them. Nobody is going to help the United States and Europe if our people fall to a third world status.

  • 7 years ago

    The problem is Democrats will keep both for their socialist state.

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