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<blockquote data-quote="MacFall" data-source="post: 54467312" data-attributes="member: 206437"><p>To be fair, most Americans probably believe that because American "poverty", which means having only one car instead of four, is largely due to bad decisions by the "poor". Not entirely, but mostly. People are taught from a young age that debt is okay, and they are further encouraged by artificially low interest rates set by the Federal Reserve. So they buy things for which they cannot pay, and then end up having to decide between debt payments and things like rent. And then in some cases, that doesn't even stop them from buying even more stuff on credit.</p><p></p><p>I say this as the son of such people, who is only now learning for himself what a bad idea it is to go into debt rather than saving now and buying later.</p><p></p><p>But that is simply not true in nations where there simply is not the same kind of opportunities that exist here. Conservative Christians don't like to hear that, because </p><p>"lack of opportunity" is a left-ish sounding explanation for poverty. But it is true. It doesn't matter how hard you work when all you have to work with is your own hands and the soil.</p><p></p><p>However, the left almost always fails to recognize that it is often confiscatory governments that limit opportunity. People who take from others that which they have not earned and consume it, and produce nothing of their own except for volumes of statutory laws and regulations, are parasites - and parasitism always results in poor health to the host.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="MacFall, post: 54467312, member: 206437"] To be fair, most Americans probably believe that because American "poverty", which means having only one car instead of four, is largely due to bad decisions by the "poor". Not entirely, but mostly. People are taught from a young age that debt is okay, and they are further encouraged by artificially low interest rates set by the Federal Reserve. So they buy things for which they cannot pay, and then end up having to decide between debt payments and things like rent. And then in some cases, that doesn't even stop them from buying even more stuff on credit. I say this as the son of such people, who is only now learning for himself what a bad idea it is to go into debt rather than saving now and buying later. But that is simply not true in nations where there simply is not the same kind of opportunities that exist here. Conservative Christians don't like to hear that, because "lack of opportunity" is a left-ish sounding explanation for poverty. But it is true. It doesn't matter how hard you work when all you have to work with is your own hands and the soil. However, the left almost always fails to recognize that it is often confiscatory governments that limit opportunity. People who take from others that which they have not earned and consume it, and produce nothing of their own except for volumes of statutory laws and regulations, are parasites - and parasitism always results in poor health to the host. [/QUOTE]
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