> FACT: Poverty is a choice.

ImperialExecutive wrote:

Poor people today almost always choose luxuries over necessities.

A poor person today never saves money, and he never reduces his standard of living to match his low income level. In the rare cases when he does save money, it's almost always for short term goals, or it just gets wasted on some family bullshyt or it's lost due to theft.

I'd never met a poor person who didn't smoke and drink. Are cigarettes and beer free?

I challenge you to find a poor person who understands that to have $5 in a week, you have to save $1 today, then $1 tomorrow, etc. Those dollars just get spent, and in a week, the poor person doesn't have the five bucks he needed.

There's a reason why convenience stores are a booming enterprise. Poor people have poor impulse control. Instead of shopping wisely at a cut-rate supermarket, they walk or drive down the street and spend 4 times as much for groceries at a convenience store.

Poor people are uniformly stupid. But largely they are just lazy. And that's why they're poor.­

Darkies are especially lazy and that's why they are typically poor. They're lazy because they evolved in the jungle and on the plains of the savanna where they only had to work for a few hours once a week to chase down some wild game. The rest of the time they rested.

They're not evolved to work 40 hours a week like Europeans and their descendants. Europeans tended after crops and animals day-in and day-out.