Refuting the rep. myth that poor deserve to be poor and are entitled to nothing

[infinite59]

In the Islamic economic system the poor have rights over the wealthy and middle class.  They have a right to be provided for and protected.

Republicans seem to think that the poor are poor because they deserve to be.  This is totally false.  This is the impression one would get reading Public School textbooks all their life and it is totally false.

(Paraphrasing Social Historian James Lowen)

Before Birth:

Affluent, expectant mothers are more likely to get prenatal care, recieve current medical advice, and enjoy general health, fitness, and nutrition.  Many poor and working-class mothers-to-be first contact the medical profession is in the last month, sometimes the last hours of their pregnancies.  Rich babies come out healthier and wieghing more than poor babies.  The infants go home to very different situations.  Poor babies are more likely to have high levels of poisonous lead in their enviroments and their bodies.  Rich babies get more time and verbal interaction with their parents and higher quality day care when not with their parents.  

Early Childhood:

When they enter kindergarten, and through the twelve years that follow, rich children benefit from suburban schools that spend two to three times as much money per student as schools in inner cities or impoverished rural areas.  Poor children are taught in classes that are often 50 percent larger than the classes of affluent children.  Differences such as these help account for the higher school-dropout rate among poor children.  Social sccientists research shows that teachers expect only children from affluent families to know the right answers and that they are often suprised and even distressed when poor children excell.  Since many working class children give off the wrong signals, even in the first grade, they end up in the general education track in high school.  

High School:

On standardized tests, even without coaching, affluent children are advantaged because their background is similar to that of the testmakers, so they are comfortable with the vocabulary and subtle subcultural assumptions of the test.  To no one's suprise, social class correlates strongly with SAT scores.

Woodrow Wilson sums up the desires of America to continue this tradition of holding the poor back:  "We want one class of persons to be very educated, and we want another class of persons, a very larger class of necessity in every society, to forgo the priviledge of an education and fit themselves to perform difficult manual tasks".

[Woodrow]

It's James Loewen

Once again, you speak on shit you really don't know anything about. You don't know dirt about Repbulicans or History.

[Z the laidback Virus]

Fact is,you'll allways have poor people and rich people.

If you could put all money and capital (buildings,possessions,etc.) on a big heap and fairly devide it among all the people in the world,it would only be a matter of time before financial inequality would develop all over again. For example,the one who gets appointed a farm and produces food will sell that food and make money out of it,while those who didn't get a business or company wouldn't make money and get poorer and eventually get back into the service of those who have a business and do make money. Or a person might use all the money he got to buy another farm for himself and use that to make more money. You can think of numerous ways in wich financial inequality would once again come to be.

Do the poor deserve to be poor?No,but there will allways be poor people.