“Poverty” in the U.S. means qualifying for food stamp, rent subsidy, free health care, free lunches at school, free job training, etc. while you have a flat screen TV with cable, beer in the frog, and can afford cigarettes and trips to the nail salon.
This week in Austin, TX they will be celebrating LBJ’s “War on Poverty, “ which was obviously lost because there are more “Poor” than ever, thanks to LBJ and Obama.
We had a speaker come speak to our Kiwanis chapter about giving money to support a program to send food home with students on weekends. The speaker told us “These kids don’t have food at home and may not get to eat if we don’t send this food”.
My hand shot up. “If these kids are being neglected that badly, shouldn’t Social Services step in?”.
Crickets....
We are giving them food so they can spend that money on cigarettes
When you add up all the free stuff they get the poor are better off than someone that works and makes just enough to not qualify for free stuff.
Many Mexican immigrants have a sixth or eighth grade education because high school costs money that they don’t have.
Here, education through 12th grade is free and college is subsidized for many.