Posted on 10/31/2017 11:23:48 AM PDT by Oshkalaboomboom
It’s still asinine to import poverty.
I had to take a Sociology course in college - 1965 or 66. The textbook was Michael Harrington's "The Other America". During the course I learned that all my life I'd lived "Below the Poverty Line!".
Amazing! I always thought we were middle class.
We had plenty of food & clothing. We had a warm & dry apartment. When I was 13 we bought our first TV and later a used car. I had a bicycle and my paper route provided spending money, sometimes grocery money and I bought some of my clothes.
My parents were divorced, so Mom had to support my sister & I. Sometimes when things got a little tight, financially, we went to live with my grandmother or an uncle & aunt.
But we were not POOR! We were loved and happy and all our physical needs were provided. OF course, I never had a pair of Air Jordans or a PlayStation (not that they'd been invented yet) Most importantly, we knew that we were loved by God.
1 Timothy 6:6-8 J.B. Phillips New Testament
There is a real profit, of course, but it comes only to those who live contentedly as God would have them live. We brought absolutely nothing with us when we entered the world and we can be sure we shall take absolutely nothing with us when we leave it. Surely then, as far as physical things are concerned, it is sufficient for us to keep our bodies fed and clothed.
much of child poverty comes from the fact over 70% of black children are born to single mothers and raised without fathers. That is one of the most serious problems faced by this nation IMO.
The real story is how few white children are even being born; instead we import the poor from the Third World - so right out of the gate they are part of “US child-poverty rates”...
Up until 1980, immigrant children were better off than native born. At that point, chiefly because of the 1965 Immigration and Naturalization Act, the situation reversed. The law made “family preference” a cornerstone of immigration policy — and, as it turned out, that meant a growing number of new Americans hailing from less-developed countries and lacking skills.
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Crooked politicians have been breeding and importing troublemakers for 50 years.
Children are poor due to single family homes.
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