why are people poor. uneducated? probably. Unlucky? definitely. lazy? quite often. Undisciplined? majority. you are spouting off you single examples of your life in your public housing. looking into any sociological studies. I know I know taking a sample of hundreds of people in public housing and below the poverty line absolutely could not compare to your experience as "poor" numerous studies of stratification and the effects of the loop of low income couldnt possibly begin to compare with your extensive experience in the ghetto. Truth is people want to work, but their so called honor (EGO) designates certain jobs as "below" them or not good enough and then they have the attitude. Which as much as you wish to deny its exhistance it truely is there. The attitude of I cant make, I wont make it, everyone is against me so why try to make it. It is this ideal passed down from parent to child and from peer to peer that causes poor to remain poor its not the politicians all be it theycould help to alleviate the issue but self pity is self pity and when there is an excuse to be made someone will use it.
but again, i've never been poor i've never lived in a poor neighbor hood and all my friends, coworkers that i've spoken with and experienced with that were poor and all of the published studies and extensive research describing and covering the issue that many others have expressed in this topic couldnt possible compare to you life experience (which using your basis of thought is why racism, and any other biases exhist) so dont even worry about responding because your life is the only one that is surrounded by pure truth and it is the only actualy experience of how you can't make it and never will. even though my dad was dirt poor and made it. my neighbors all of them 6-8 were below the poverty line and made it. my aunts and uncles poor and made it. must be an anomaly to life because you say so.
Pleas continue blaming the system there is truth there, and it makes it easier to deal with.