The Impovershed Few
A young boy walks through the mud bare-footed towards his one room shack. He opens the waterlogged door to find his young mother feeding his eighteen month old sister cold beans. He walks towards the kitchen, which is really just a three-legged table, a lawn chair and a stove, and scoops the remaining beans from the stove onto a plate for himself. He gives his mother a kiss on the cheek and walks towards his corner of the room. His mother wipes a tear from her eye. Tonight she did not eat dinner with her children; she did not eat at all just as she had not eaten the night before. This scene did not happen in a third world country like one might have believed. It happens everyday here in America. With the Presidential Elections quickly approaching, the candidates should focus on certain issues such as poverty and welfare. To help put a stop to poverty, the candidates must focus on the children living in the destitution, the education of the families, and the monetary w!ages of the families that are often making less than $15,000 a year. Putting an end to poverty starts with the children of the families. Vice President Al Gore feels very strongly about this. If the government provides nutritional
The hopes of a nation are to get rid of all poverty. They want to feed and cloth and educate the little boy that lives in the one-roomed shack. They want to teach the parents of that little boy so that way, they can be hired at better paying jobs; they want to help the people with their finances. The man that wins this presidential election is going to have to understand that there is poverty out there, and that there are things that he can do about it. William Pitt once said "Poverty is no disgrace but it is damned annoying." Galbraith answered that with "In the contemporary United States, it is not annoying but it is a disgrace" (247). The leaders of today should help diminish the poverty level from a disgrace to non-existent. Lastly, the government must help families learn how to manage their finances. The two major candidates for the Presidential Election did not cover this topic. Obviously Vice President Gore and Governor Bush did not feel that this would have been a successful idea. Galbraith on the other hand, feels that this is very important to help rid the country of poverty. "The only way to solve the problem of poverty is to help people help themselves." (245) One way that the government could "help people help themselves" is by setting up organizations that gives classes on finances and such. Another thing that the government could do is to make a mandatory nation-wide law th
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Approximate Word count = 951
Approximate Pages = 4 (250 words per page double spaced)
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