Mr Dprince Knows

A child once asked their parents why there are so many poor people?  Depending on their personal views, the parents offered a variety of answers ranging from people being to lazy to work to just a simple “I do not know why.”  The question is still occasionally asked by children.  Now, would it not be more appropriate for adults to ask that same question?

Yes, it would only be fitting that more adults ask the question, “Why are there so many poor people?”  It is an adult population that is plagued with this phenomena.  It is an adult population that has passed its effects to another generation of adults by having children  under these conditions.  It is an adult population that must pay the financial price of helping to maintain a society of financially derelict persons.  An adult population must shoulder the burden of increased societal costs through private, social and government programs that only offer temporary solutions instead of permanent resolutions.  Food, clothing, housing, medical and psychiatric care, physical and chemical abuse, increased crime rates, and death all weigh society down keeping it from attaining the true heights it is capable of reaching.

So, the question is, “Why have the adults not solved this problem of an ever growing population of poor people?”  One answer is,”Why me?  Let our government do something…that is why I pay taxes.”  Or, “These people need to take matters into their own hands and not depend on others to do it for them.”  Maybe, “There is no solution to the problem.  It is just a simple fact of life that poor people will exist in every society.”  Let us examine these statements.

“Why me?”  “Why not you or me?  Somebody has to do something.  As President Obama has put forth so many times, “We can no longer do nothing.”  Does each individual effort have to be so much of an effort?  No, it does not.