Why Poor People Stay Poor

[jwirr]

21. And some of those less intelligent people are not able to do

any type of work. My daughter cannot talk, cannot walk, cannot even turn over on her own. She is severely developmentally disabled and will never be able to rise in the work place.

But for a while MN went along with the Clinton idea that everyone needs to work. So what they did is that they hired a one-to-one to help her work. She pushed buttons - well her hand was placed on the button and the one-to-one pushed it down on the button. My daughter was paid a few cents an hour while the taxpayer was paying a whole lot more for the pca. I went along with it because she did get a lot of benefit from just being in the program with other people. But it was not the work that did it.

Talk about exploitation - at the same time I took care of her in the home maintained by welfare. About $.60 cents an hour because I was her mother and that was even after she was an adult. Today the foster home gets $3000 a month to do what I did. I an another mother talked about trading children. Then we could be paid for the job we were doing.

There is nothing that can change what happened to me. But while we are on the subject - nothing has changed - there are still mothers or fathers out there who are not considered working if the work is done for their own adult child.

And there are a lot of ways that keep the poor down as much as they can. Thank you for the post.