Ending Poverty in America

And you say to yourself; “The pimps and hustlers are living better and making more money than we got. Why waste my time studying if all I got to look forward to is this?!”. It’s very hard for a child; especially a young teenager ; to see beyond the poverty and misery that is an everyday life existence for him or her. Those without the strong intellect; the special skills and talent; or the physical ability to succeed in sports have a hard time excepting there’s anyone that cares. They have a hard time believing there’s a better life and better times beyond the slums of your childhood existence. If we don’t put our hearts, our souls and our dollars into fixing and bring on line a better public educational system than the one we have today; we’ve failed to protect 89% of our kids future, as well as the future of America.

We’ll continue to fall behind the rest of the world because we didn’t care enough about the young and the poor to give our very best. If we’re really serious about growing the economy, lowering taxes, increasing the work force, boosting the GNP, reducing poverty and the ranks of the people currently swelling the welfare system, like Senator Obama has stated over, and over, and over again, “ It’s time for real change.” Poverty; as I hope I’ve demonstrated; is more than just physical obstacles that separates the haves from the have nots. For those kids whose very existence is tainted with the daily stench of poverty it becomes a fact of life; simply because it becomes a state of mind. And THAT”S what we need to combat if we’re ever going to put an end to poverty in the United States Of America.