Poor people tend to make bad decisions. That, in large part, is why they’re poor. An earlier posting today was to an article by Ann Coulter. She wrote on racism. A study attempting to prove New Jersey Highway Patrol was targeting black speeders over white speeders instead proved that blacks sped faster and more frequently than whites. Doing things that are against the law can incur great costs and penalties. I can understand a millionaire speeding on a road he deems safe for the speed because the ticket cost is irrelevant. (A doctor I know told me, “I could pay three of these tickets a day and wouldn’t notice the money.) But, the point is, according to the study, the rich guy isn’t as likely to speed as the poor person. He’s probably less likely to smoke or be obese as well. Walk through a Wal-Mart (average income of a Wal-Mart shopper is only $25k.) You can see poor decisions on every isle ranging from facial tattoos to obesity to an ankle monitor.
My mother used to say, “Poverty is an attitude problem.”
Walk through a Wal-Mart (average income of a Wal-Mart shopper is only $25k.) You can see poor decisions on every isle ranging from facial tattoos to obesity to an ankle monitor.
I like to explain that our culture was working fine until sin went mainstream. A wealthy man can afford adultery and a bastard or two. I’m not saying it’s right. It’s not and it can cost the man’s soul. However, the rich could use money to mitigate bad results.
The problem is, we now have millions of poor people who want to make all the same bad choices, but they don’t have the $ to pay for it. Instead, they want you or I to pay for their mistakes. That way leads to economic collapse.
poor people have poor ways
I have a friend who always says - you wanna know how not to be poor? Go to where the poor people are, watch what they do, and don’t do it.
A study attempting to prove New Jersey Highway Patrol was targeting black speeders over white speeders instead proved that blacks sped faster and more frequently than whites.
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It’s funny that you mention New Jersey state troopers. Where there is smoke there is fire sometimes. There were issues. Which is why they were put under federal control for a while.
When I was a teenager I was naïve and I didn’t even see Or think about what was going on.
Back in the mid-80s as a high school student with a new license I was driving down the New Jersey Turnpike with my best friend who was Hispanic in my fathers $25,000 European luxury sedan. Got pulled over for something. Probably speeding I was pretty good at that back then. :-)
Two Brown teenagers in an expensive European sedan. Obviously they must be drug dealers. The state trooper before even asking for my license and registration saw a brown paper bag in the backseat. He didn’t ask if he can search he just reached behind me and grabbed the bag out of the backseat. Probably thought he was going to find a big drug bust that he can brag to his buddies back at the station house about.
He found my Burger King dirty work uniform covered in mustard and ketchup and grease.
He was disappointed. It was only then that he asked me for my license and registration which I gave him. He gave me a speeding ticket and I went home to my bedroom in outer white Landia. :-). Dad yelled at me when I told him I got a ticket and the fine was five days of work at Burger King.
I never really gave it a second thought until 20 years later.