I'm politically moderate, and while the self sufficiency / accountability of the right makes sense in a lot of circumstances to me, my leftist exposure makes me want to ask hard rightists: at what point of disadvantage or destitution (educational, medical, financial) would someone be qualified to be helped? Or is there no helping anyone under any circumstances, no matter how they arrived there?
My point is simply that I can see how people raised in the US third world would have a hard time breaking free of it's pitfalls without some assistance or opportunities being handed to them. That being considered, without any assistance or special opportunities, what should people in destitution do to solve their problems if they're already trying their hardest just to earn a living, pay bills, afford housing and keep their kids out of jail / the morgue?
To me the solution to problems like this don't involve assigning blame, shaming people, or paying paltry debts for the poor (which assumes ridiculously that their water bill is the only problem they're facing). Solving a problem like this requires overhauling the scholastic, social, and economic environment that continues to produce hundreds of thousands of people, generation after generation who either choose to or cannot pay their bills. Whatever that solution looks like it will almost inevitably require taxpayer money in some shape or form.
The problem with issues like this is they are a fire: without containment and a plan to put it out they spread to people and places where they didn't exist before.
My point is simply that I can see how people raised in the US third world would have a hard time breaking free of it's pitfalls without some assistance or opportunities being handed to them. That being considered, without any assistance or special opportunities, what should people in destitution do to solve their problems if they're already trying their hardest just to earn a living, pay bills, afford housing and keep their kids out of jail / the morgue?
To me the solution to problems like this don't involve assigning blame, shaming people, or paying paltry debts for the poor (which assumes ridiculously that their water bill is the only problem they're facing). Solving a problem like this requires overhauling the scholastic, social, and economic environment that continues to produce hundreds of thousands of people, generation after generation who either choose to or cannot pay their bills. Whatever that solution looks like it will almost inevitably require taxpayer money in some shape or form.
The problem with issues like this is they are a fire: without containment and a plan to put it out they spread to people and places where they didn't exist before.