Obama--the grumblings

[Aliantha]

Originally Posted by TheMercenary

I think a better description might be that less educated people tend to be poor, rather than just stupid. More educated people tend not to be poor. I have found that often bad decisions that people make often lead to more bad decisions and things spiral down from there. People get stuck in that rut and can't get out. I think you hit the nail on the head with mental health issues, drugs, ETOH, etc.

So with that in mind, do you think that the source of the problem is really in the education of our children? If children have better access to a decent education, they'll make better decisions and get out of the rut their parents are in?

While I think that yes we do need to look closely at education and ways to improve systems across the board both in private and public sectors, I don't think that's the only answer. It needs to be a multi-pronged approach and of course we could discuss those issues all day and come no closer to solving the problem.

I do believe that ultimately, there will always be poor people, and there'll always be rich people, and there'll always be the rest of us who sit somewhere in between. I think this is how societies based on capitalism work and always will work, and even though here in Australia we have more government monitoring, we're still a capitalist society in many ways, so will always be subject to the same problems although perhaps to a lesser degree than in the US in some ways.