2001-10-11

wow this one is really long!

It astonishes me that some people have the audacity to believe that poor people "want" to be poor.

Some people in my government class believe that. . .not going to mention any names. . .

So today, all i could think of was how it is at my mom's office. They're all republican ubercapitalists, they refer to my mother as their "token liberal." All the wealthy, white males who comprise the upper echelons of the firm think that hard work is what gets someone ahead in america. They think this while they converse with their clients on the phone while playing solitaire on their brand-new computers, in their lavish offices furnished with leather sofas and glass coffee tables, and big windows that overlook duke of glocester street. . .

Do these men honestly believe that they work harder than the mexican immigrants who slave beneath the hot sun picking tomatoes all day long, so they can afford to buy their children bread to eat? Tomatoes that they very well may eat for dinner that night.

Yeah, those damn people on welfare, using taxpayers' money. . .

It is just not as simple as going out and getting a job. go tell that to a single mother in baltimore city, with 5 children cos she couldn't afford birth control, who couldn't afford college, (but that was never a consideration anyway), who was kicked off of welfare, who is working 2 jobs at minimum wage, but that is still beneath the poverty level. . .

it is so easy for us to say that poor people "want" to be poor. we live in suburbia, far away from all of this. And you know, "out of sight, out of mind". . .

"Yes, 'n' how many times can a man turn his head,

Pretending he just doesn't see?"