" FEAR THE POSSIBILITY OF BEING POOR... "

WE ALL FEAR THE POSSIBILITY OF BEING POOR...

Myths

Most poor are lazy and don't want to work.Most of the poor get welfare, so the aren't really suffering.Most of the poor are better off than the rest of us because the government pays them to lie around and have more babies. But we ordinary tax payers can't afford to have more kids because the government won't subsidize us like they do the "welfare queens."Families on welfare eat better than those of us who work for a living.

If they didn't buy all the junk food and steaks they do and managed their money better, they wouldn't be poor.FactsIn 1990, 60% of the poor in the U.S. were not able to work due to their age (too young or too old), disability, or the lack of jobs. All of these are circumstances clearly beyond the control of the individual.

Most poor citizens do not receive aid from the government, either because they are not eligible, not willing to apply, or do not know that they are eligible.In Alabama, only a minority of welfare recipients receive ANY cash aid at all. Among those who do receive AFDC payments, an average of $29 per child each month or $348 a year was paid (1990). Compared to the income tax deduction of $2,450 per child, it is clear that the middle class families have more government- supplied incentive to have kids than the poor do.

In fact, the fertility rate of women on welfare is less than the fertility rate of all U.S. women of child bearing age.The average Food Stamp allotment in 1990 was 79 cents a meal per person. For a poor person, no amount of "good management" can result in sufficient nutritious meals throughout the month while on Food Stamps. We imagine what we see someone buy on food stamps is what they buy every week, but most food stamp recipients do one big shopping trip a month and try to make it last through the month.Why do myths persist?

The media perpetuate mythic images of "welfare queens" by running the same tired stories, and presenting as the norm a black family with four kids, all conceived by different fathers and all of them born while the mother was on welfare.

The next time you see a welfare story in the newspaper or on TV, look critically at the images they are presenting to you. Absent are the laid-off workers, the sick and disabled, and the unemployed workers who are poor and need help.

We want to believe myths.

We are not mean-spirited people, but we all fear the possibility of being poor. By demonizing the poor, it allows us to believe that "We will never be poor, because we are NOT like THOSE people."

But in fact, we are. In a 25-year study of the American families done by the University of Michigan, at some moment in those years fully one-quarter of all families studied experienced poverty.Politicians profit from encouraging myths. When is the last time a politician got elected for telling a truth we did not want to hear?

In the case of welfare myths, politicians can balance the budget on the backs of the poor, and we will support this.

More Facts on Poverty

Most recipients of welfare are NOT black, contrary to our myths. While people of color are disproportionately poor in the U.S., they are not the majority of the poor, nor are they the majority of welfare recipients.

"Streetchildren,Whose To Blame?"

Who are the Street Children?Street children are young people who spend a considerable time living and/or working on the streets of the world’s cities.

Different countries describe street children in different ways. However, two general categories have been frequently used to describe them:

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children living and working in the street
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children working on the streets who maintain regular contact with their families
Reality Situation of Street Children in Asia
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The working street child works from 6 to 16 hours, often in a combination of “occupations”.
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Street children usually come from large families, with six to ten children per family.
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Street children are generally malnourished and anemic, many of them physically stunted.
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Street children suffer psychologically from undue family pressures, abuses and neglect at home. Very often, they develop low self-esteem.
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Street children are prone to street fights and bullying from bigger youth, harassment from policemen, suspicion and arrest for petty crimes, abuse and torture from misguided authorities.
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Street children usually come from broken families.
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There are more boys than girls. Female children are disadvantaged because of their sex; they do more housework and are prone to sexual abuses.
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Parents of street children are preoccupied with earning a living, oftentimes engaged in irregular low-paying jobs as construction workers, vendors, and scavengers.

"Who should be held responsible with the large growth of children living on streets?"

This is one of the major problem of 3rd world countries that because of poverty many children live on streets & at their very young age they learn to beg for money & food to survive.

We should take step to help these children to be out of the street not just by giving them a temporary solution to feed their hunger.

We should take time to talk to them & share something that may help them to see that there is hope even they are experiencing hardships in life.We should let them realize that it is the will to succeed that could change their lives.If they won't learn to believe in theirselves they would be begging their entire life.

Most of the time we tend to blame our government for the increasing number of streetchildrens that are homeless or neglected by their parents.My sole intention in writing this blog is to open our eyes & see the root, causing this problem.

We should not always put the blame on our government.People are always looking for someone to put the blame to justify the result of their action.Why would we need to put the blame to our government.Did they tell us that we should produce as many babies as we can, even we are not capable of supporting our kids financially.

Having kids is not just like having sex. Once you decide to have kids you should know the responsibility that goes with it.

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" Concience Is The Primary Ingredient To End Poverty"

Government Officials don't need to be a diplomate , All we need are individuals who have conscience to govern.Great Politicians are not measured by the perfect speech they deliver but the pure intentions that they can offer.

In Philippines, The Government Officials uses their position to make a large scale contracts with foreign companies for the infrastractures,medical needs & other mobilization for the country.They let companies to bid for the project then once the bidding is through.The Higher Officials monopolized the every deal they can for their own personal interest.

Perhaps the incumbent government cannot solve all the problems and contain all crises, but it should expose all corrupted officials so that the people would know way ahead of the elections who are the thieves that have stolen the country's resources yet the dare take about honesty.

On the other hand, there is a lot of talk about the electoral divisions and electoral system, whether proportional or otherwise, but this is not the issue. They have distorted the awareness of the voters by associating their needs and demands to those who were the cause of their political and economic problems. The problem is not the electoral system , but rather of misleading the people and deceiving thwem. This is what we ought to change to achieve sound representation that could pave the way for ending corruption.