Why Are the Poor Poor?

Yesterday, Rush played this sound byte:

PITTS: For a lot of people in Thomasville, hard times go back generations.

WATFORD: My mom one day, she was like six, and there were six other brothers and sisters, and she’s standing on the chair and she is boiling water to pour dirt in for them to have dirt soup. I just can’t imagine anybody having to go through anything like that. So I cannot stand the thought of anybody being hungry.

PITTS: If you could go to Washington and talk to Congress, talk to President Obama, what would you say?

WATFORD: I would ask him to please let every child in America eat a free breakfast and free lunch every day.

PITTS: It’s awfully expensive, isn’t it?

WATFORD: It’s not expensive when you’re feeding -- we’re feeding our future.

Now, I seriously doubt that they ate dirt soup back in the 1930s or 50s or whenever this woman was talking about. Maybe they boiled their shoes, or something, but there's no way you could eat dirt.

But my question is...why do these people have 6 kids, when all they have to feed their kids is dirt?

Well...big families were the thing, up until about 30 years or so ago. The poorer people were, the more kids they had. Weren't they ever able to extrapolate that the more mouths you had to feed, the poorer you were, and the less time you had to do things that could raise you up so you wouldn't be poor?

It couldn't have been because they were on welfare at that time...welfare as a way of life didn't come in to being until the 1970s.

They had so many kids because their religion didn't allow them otherwise. And for many people today, it still doesn't allow them otherwise.

So there's the option of going to school, getting a good education, getting married, getting a well-paying job (those two can be vice versa) and then having kids, or going to school, getting pregnant, dropping out of school, and continuing to live on government handouts for the rest of your life.

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