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Originally Posted by swanson719
You can pull yourself up by your own bootstraps if you have the determination to do it. It's not like these people have to be poor. I've lived in their shoes, and all the people I met were there because of the choices they made. There is a difference between broke and poor. I've been broke and homeless... but poor is a lifestyle, and that, I've never been. If people want to help themselves and get out of that kind of rut, they can.
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Of *course* they are there because of the choices they've made. That's the entire point.
Human beings make bad choices sometimes. We can't help it. It's our nature.
Of course you can look at any person's life in hindsight and say "if you had done X, Y, and Z, you would be better off."