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<blockquote data-quote="John Mastrocco" data-source="post: 545630" data-attributes="member: 54595"><p>Shek,</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Poverty does breed more poverty. It can be overcome, but the obstacles are much greater if you aren't poor - not insurmountable unless you are led to believe they are, but greater. And that is part of the problem - the belief the obstacles are insurmountable. This is something that can only be overcome by changing the thought processes of the nation's poor, and how that can be done is beyond my experience or knowledge.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>But the other parts of the problem are the obstacles themselves. The educational opportunities for poor people and in poor neighborhoods are not exactly equal to those in better neighborhoods. While even that can be overcome with hard work, but that also requires a change in the thought process.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>The same things exist for the middle class when compared to the rich. The middle class has obstacles that are not faced by the rich. They can be overcome, but it is a matter of believing in that possibility before you can even try. While a greater percentage of middle income people have that belief than do the poor, it is still not unanimous.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Money does provide more opportunity. The more money, the more opporunity. The higher the economic class, the more money. It's not that the opportunity isn't there, it's just the availablility of that opportunity that is more restricted.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>In the end, while much of what you say has truth in it, it's not the whole picture. For any economic class.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="John Mastrocco, post: 545630, member: 54595"] Shek, Poverty does breed more poverty. It can be overcome, but the obstacles are much greater if you aren't poor - not insurmountable unless you are led to believe they are, but greater. And that is part of the problem - the belief the obstacles are insurmountable. This is something that can only be overcome by changing the thought processes of the nation's poor, and how that can be done is beyond my experience or knowledge. But the other parts of the problem are the obstacles themselves. The educational opportunities for poor people and in poor neighborhoods are not exactly equal to those in better neighborhoods. While even that can be overcome with hard work, but that also requires a change in the thought process. The same things exist for the middle class when compared to the rich. The middle class has obstacles that are not faced by the rich. They can be overcome, but it is a matter of believing in that possibility before you can even try. While a greater percentage of middle income people have that belief than do the poor, it is still not unanimous. Money does provide more opportunity. The more money, the more opporunity. The higher the economic class, the more money. It's not that the opportunity isn't there, it's just the availablility of that opportunity that is more restricted. In the end, while much of what you say has truth in it, it's not the whole picture. For any economic class. [/QUOTE]
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