“Poverty” The Never Ending Story
Poverty is not the lack of money in your bank; it’s the lack of opportunity to succeed. After reading “A Modest Proposal” by Jonathan Swift, it is clear that poverty is something that is almost impossible to escape. Since the beginning of time, the saying has been true; “the rich get richer, while the poor get poorer”. We see beggars on the side of the street and turn our heads the opposite way. Society has learned to hate those in need, because the wealthy tell them time after time, that poor people are less worthy than those with money in their pockets. It is the fortunate people of this world that keep the poor people poor, by strengthening the welfare state, raising the minimum wage, and moving jobs overseas, …show more content…
While this is a good idea in theory, because it would put more money into the pockets of minimum wage earners who rely on government assistance, unfortunately it would have a devastating effect on those that we are “helping”. The job market works on the principles of “Supply and Demand”. With a higher minimum wage, the demand for low skilled workers would decline drastically. This would take the jobs away from people who need them the most and decrease their ability to gain the job experience they need to acquire a job that pays more than the minimum wage. Increasing the minimum wage would also cause prices of goods to increase as well, offsetting the increased wages with increased prices, once again causing an increase in un-employment and more people in need of government assistance, dragging them deeper in …show more content…
These rich people fill their pockets with money from the bottom 99% of Americans. If there is one thing that these rich people want more, it is more money. With money, they can afford to pay off politicians. In return politicians make new laws, or change current laws to fit the one percent’s agenda, an agenda based on keeping the rich, rich and the poor, poor. When the rich are able to make their own rules, they get away with evading tons of taxes by moving their money off-shore banks and moving their factories and U.S. made goods away from the United States, siphoning thousands upon thousands of jobs from “We the People”, and giving them to cheap labor overseas. This leaves all those thousands of people without jobs, or having to settle for any minimum wage job they can get their hands
Poverty is not the lack of money in your bank; it’s the lack of opportunity to succeed. After reading “A Modest Proposal” by Jonathan Swift, it is clear that poverty is something that is almost impossible to escape. Since the beginning of time, the saying has been true; “the rich get richer, while the poor get poorer”. We see beggars on the side of the street and turn our heads the opposite way. Society has learned to hate those in need, because the wealthy tell them time after time, that poor people are less worthy than those with money in their pockets. It is the fortunate people of this world that keep the poor people poor, by strengthening the welfare state, raising the minimum wage, and moving jobs overseas, …show more content…
While this is a good idea in theory, because it would put more money into the pockets of minimum wage earners who rely on government assistance, unfortunately it would have a devastating effect on those that we are “helping”. The job market works on the principles of “Supply and Demand”. With a higher minimum wage, the demand for low skilled workers would decline drastically. This would take the jobs away from people who need them the most and decrease their ability to gain the job experience they need to acquire a job that pays more than the minimum wage. Increasing the minimum wage would also cause prices of goods to increase as well, offsetting the increased wages with increased prices, once again causing an increase in un-employment and more people in need of government assistance, dragging them deeper in …show more content…
These rich people fill their pockets with money from the bottom 99% of Americans. If there is one thing that these rich people want more, it is more money. With money, they can afford to pay off politicians. In return politicians make new laws, or change current laws to fit the one percent’s agenda, an agenda based on keeping the rich, rich and the poor, poor. When the rich are able to make their own rules, they get away with evading tons of taxes by moving their money off-shore banks and moving their factories and U.S. made goods away from the United States, siphoning thousands upon thousands of jobs from “We the People”, and giving them to cheap labor overseas. This leaves all those thousands of people without jobs, or having to settle for any minimum wage job they can get their hands