Sarah A Blog Post 2

While reading the abramsky many stories and life experiences stood out to me. With may examples and life testimony’s being told us, as the reader was able to understand what these people where actually going through on a day to day basis. With people losing their homes, the government that we put our trust into rejecting the issue of poverty, and also the welfare system being misused and rejected by individuals. The fact that people are losing their livelihoods due to the lack of the government’s interest in the poor population really made it stories discussed sad and depressing. For example, the story of Nicci and her family reminds me of a real story told by my internship manager. The Ambrasky really does exist and we take these things for granted.

The way people think that the economy is set up; the government tells to spend more money to make the economy grow. The book discusses how money is being spent on things that is wants and not needs. When there are individuals out in the world that cannot even afford the basic needs. This is very true. I once heard that the government tried to keep people in poverty by using the methods to keep us down instead of bringing us up. Many of us are going to either be very poor or very rich, there will soon be no middle class and that is scary to know as students leaving college, and for individuals barely making it.

With this the book actually put advice in about fixing and beating poverty. The programs that are there for are in use by many people everyday and even though the government has been trying to remove these programs, they do assist many people to make it day to day. If these programs where not here then what would happen in the world. Many people would either be stealing to what they need or be poor in the streets or hungry in food pantries. Reading more into these chapters shows just how deep poverty get in the world, and how the people we look to the wrong people to fix the mistakes of our country, when we should be looking to other sources.