Mr Puggsly said:
Many people living in poverty lack skills, made bad decisions, or aren't making an effort. I'm not saying anything outrageous, these are facts. I'm basically saying more people have the ability to lift themselves out of being poor and make decent money. Unfortunately, many don't even try. |
"Not acquring the skills needed to get a decent paying job is a choice."
This is far from the truth. Not everyone is born with the same privileges. No one choses where they are born, who raises them, how they get introduced into the world, who teaches them how to live. Someone who is born into poverty may never even realise they want to get out of it. They are a product of their surroundings, just like you. Your words paint an overly simplistic picture of some very complex issues. It may have been a choice for you, it certainly isn't for everyone. Besides this, there is no guarentee that the skill you acquire is going to lead you to a decent paying job. Job markets change constantly and so do education requirements. To go even further, shouldn't "decent paying" be a requirement for all jobs? Someone needs to do the work, so someone needs to survive on what it pays.
Besides some Scandinavian countries I've never heard of a government actually given money to people to go to college. The idea of getting into debt with the government without job security doesn't sound very appealing to me neither.
Not sure whether or not my point will come across, but it's the best I can do right now.
