>How can anyone learn anything except living in poverty and >how to milk more from assistance programs in that >environment?
I lived in government housing when my husband left me with a one and two year old, by myself. I got a job, lived where I had to untill I could do better. Saved enough for a deposit on a duplex (with a back yard, so no more broken beer bottles and crack dealers to contend with). When I was moving, the women in the complex were asking me where I was moving and how they wished they could get so 'lucky' to get out and a nice place with a yard. As if I just won the lottery or something, or worse yet, because I was white I must have been just given something. (I say that because I heard that too, but there were white women saying the same thing, go figure) Never mind that I got up and left my house at 7 am to take my kids to daycare, then go to work while they were snoozing away. There is more action at 2am then at 7 am in the projects. Except on school days, then you see the kids going to school and every now and then a responsible parent who manages to come to the busstop in thier robe and slippers. Then come home at nearly 6 to cook supper and clean up after two babies. One not even walking. I'm sorry, but it had less to do with luck and more to do with hard work and sacrifice.
You exemplify my point.
Why create artificial poverty zone communities?
I have been close to needing government assistance a few times in my life, it would have helped a lot during some hard times, but I was fortunate in that I was able to avoid it.Plus I was never "poor" enough long enough to qualify.
Dead broke and no roof doesn't mean you qualify...
I don't have a problem with tax dollars offering people a hand up, and Lord knows we all need a hand from someone sometimes.
I do resent being the unwilling,forced host for healthy but parasitic lazy people.
I can easily and lightly carry the burdens of someone who is forever disabled, or those in temporary need.
I will never willingly carry the burdens of those who are just too lazy to carry them themselves.