POVERTY, AMERICA'S INDUSTRY
This introduction is to serve as an outline of what the project, entitled “Poverty, America’s Industry”, is all about. This project based on the premise acknowledging the number one industry in the United States is not the steel industry, not the oil industry, not the technology industry. It is the poverty industry.
This project focuses on a court system concerned ostensibly with providing an opportunity for our children to become productive citizens. In the end is a system serving not the children, not the poor, but those sustaining existence.
Where the children and their families are after going through this system nobody really knows or even cares.
Following is a description of a court system in a major city on the East Coast in which thousands do their best to address issues of poor. This system is described then measured by the number of agencies, public and private, people involved, number of employees and jobs created, directly, and funds expended.
Having defined the size of the workforce and the amount expended, a clear idea of the size of the endeavor, an endeavor measured no in bill ions, appears.
The focus turns to the number of children going through this system with an analysis attempting to determine where these children are today.
We look no further than the jails, the addicted, the homeless, the workers at the local McDonalds, 7/11 stores, and so on. Meanwhile, the defenders of this system speak of advancing the cause of the children while they advancing their cause enriching those living well and in comfort.
With the number of people profiting from this system, size of spending understood, (having an effect far beyond this system), and knowing where the children, having gone through this system, are today, a cost benefit analysis is utilized indicating the extent of the efficiency and usefulness of this system.
In the end we see a system doing what it does, creating thousands of jobs with salaries and costs in the billions of dollars becoming a significant portion of the Gross National Product, providing for the comfortable, at the expense of poor children and their families used as fodder for the enrichment of people living well beyond the children.
As we must maintain our steel industry, our oil industry, our tech industry and so on to maintain prosperity, we must maintain the poverty system keeping people poor to benefit the economy. This is a consequence of this system.
An economy dependent upon the poor perpetuates itself. A system making profits on the backs of the poor keeps them poor because this is good for business.
The final section will address how this can be changed. A different system, defined herein, is discussed achieving the stated purpose of the poverty industry, that is, “providing an opportunity for our children to become productive citizens.
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My name is Stephen Kirsch.
I am an American citizen born in Baltimore. My heritage is German. My parents were Republican admirers of General Eisenhower.
I have children and grandchildren. I have and still work.
I believe in my country, my God, and my family. I believe in the teachings not of those of the books but of those of my family. I believe in the right to participate in that which I have helped to build.
My parents taught me not to lie, not to steal, to cherish family, friends, and strangers; that in family there are no strangers. I have been taught to cherish the principles of my parents, among these, hard work, and caring for all.
I learned not to embrace a political party, a particular religion rather to embrace my neighbor, no matter who he is, from where he arrived, what he is.
Who am I? I am you.
Each of you is born of parents with a heritage having their heroes and villains. Like me many of you have children with all of us having loved ones. Like me you have setbacks. Like me you know the struggles of life. Like me you dreams, hopes and fears.
Each of you believes in something beyond you making you and me of the same cloth.
Like me you know joy and sorrow, happiness and disappointment.
Like me you believe in hard work deserving to be of that which you help to build.
Like me you have been taught not to steal, care for family, friends, and those beyond.
Timeless virtues are our inheritance.
I am you. You are I.
I have experienced life as you have. We are not enemies. We are brothers.
I do not care who you are, from where you come.
I am a Baltimore American Statesman.
You are I.
I am you.
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