Poverty is a sign of weakness of character. People are poor because they lack ambition and just looking for a handout. That's what the Republicans told me anyway.
Yeah, but I also think it's a learned helplessness towards poverty. Partly for the reason you say, but, also because there's an acceptance that it's insoluble.
This is not the America I was brought up to believe in.
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Poverty is a sign of weakness of character. People are poor because they lack ambition and just looking for a handout. That's what the Republicans told me anyway.
By -epm, at 3:43 PM
Yeah, but I also think it's a learned helplessness towards poverty. Partly for the reason you say, but, also because there's an acceptance that it's insoluble.
By mikevotes, at 9:53 PM
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