America and the Poor - What it's like to Be Poor in America

America the beautiful, we spends millions each year helping foreign countries with aid. Yet, we neglect our own people in the process. I was so disappointed to see the vicitms of Hurricane Katrina and the way they were treated and neglected, shuffled around like they did not matter. In my opinion it was because the majority of those vicitims were poor. The poor have to create their own opportunities to advance there lives. They have to be willing and motivated and have an honest desire to want to improve their situation. This is why the poor remain poor.

They don't know how to create their own advantages or they don't have the hope that thing can be better. They just stay in their own desperate situation not trying to change. Sometimes a situation seems so desperate there seems to be no help. People can become lost to addictions. They need alcohol ,drugs, gambling, or cigarettes to make it through the day. They don't want to deal with the reality of their situation, so they stay high and numb. And then, their lives and problems become worse because of the addictions. Then they end up in jail and then it cost the taxpayers money to house them and take care of them. It's a vicious cycle of events that happens over and over again.

People become lost in the system, because they are poor. They don't know how or have the desire to make a change. They feel like all their hope is gone and there's no chance for them to change and make a better life for themselves. Every one needs to have hope and faith in order to survive. You have to believe there is going to be a better day. The social system we have to help these people is not an answer. The more children you have the more benifits you recieve. So now we have people how just have children and live off the welfare system. Taking money from the poor and disabled. The ones who really need help. I suffer from a mental illness, which I can control with medication. I am not elligable for any government aid.