Post by Alex on Nov 16, 2011 0:08:07 GMT -5
I think I agree with this article whole heartedly. It all boils down to money. The money gives people power to buy everything including safety and security and the only thing the wealthy really has to do is worry about the money they can’t access right then and there. It’s my thinking that since money gives power it makes individual feel “superior” but this also works the opposite way.
The poor have basically no sense of safety and security it’s worse if the person is poor and of color or other minorities. I also would like to say that it is worse if the person is an immigrant from another country. The language barrier adds another layer of lack of safety and security because since there is a barrier in language, most immigrants can’t get a decent job that will pay an adequate amount for safety and security. The langue barrier also makes them often victims of overpricing by cable, TV and version companies. For a time before I was fluent enough in English, we were paying a huge amount of money for a service we were not even getting. The poor immigrants apparently get poorer because they have other problems too aside from the everyday needs. The security and stability that they want is to get a visa, citizenship, etc and that costs money. So they’re already not earning enough and this makes the situation worse.
Going back to the poor Americans though, I think it’s absolutely ridiculous that people are resorting to guns and violence as a means of security, this would not need to happen if maybe the government helped out a little bit and the fact that the poorer parts of Americas are being used as a dumping ground for toxic and other harmful stuff it’s absurd because than that’s making the situation worse, dumping the toxic wastes aren’t going to solve the issue.
I agree also about the different view on police as far as the poor and the rich are concerned. I think it’s unfair that police who are supposed to protect and serve the people judge their charges by either the color of their skin or their economic status. It’s just not right and than they wonder why the poor have such a bad impression of the police. I know for a fact that the four years I attended high school, there was more than one death of a police officer in the Philadelphia area. I think what attributes to that is the fact that in general has to do with the safety and security. The people that are generally fed up with their conditions, the police aren’t helping their problems so, it resulted in violence. Maybe the sense of security and safety of the poor people would improve at least a little bit if police wasn’t going around acting so hostile and actually tried to do something to help the situation. Then the poor and other minorities could stop looking at the police as an enemy.
The last thing I have to comment on is at the very end about the poor people going to war because they are sought out by recruiters. First off, that’s not fair. War should not be a way to escape the immediate poor quality of home life and specific people should not be targeted. It makes me mad that the rich have the audacity to say or feel that they have more important things to do than fight in a war. It basically says that they don’t care that people are dying to defend them. All the money and safety might not be enough to save the rich or anyone for that matter should something happen and basically what this sounds like is that they are ungrateful to the people who are fighting which I think is very disrespectful.