To do this blog I surveyed a couple of students at Whitney young and surprisingly most of them came to the same conclusion as me, poverty is a choice. The students all came to the similar consensus that the world is full of possibilities and opportunities and if you want to have a good life then you will take advantage of it. We all acknowledge that some people have struggled in live and had some misfortune, but that doesn't mean that they cannot prosper. This blog coincides to the report I did in Contemporary US History about Oprah Winfrey, she rose from poverty to become the only African American on the Forbes 400 List. She is living proof that if you work hard and take advantage of our opportunistic world then you can become successful in life.
I think that people might be more inclined to try to support themselves if the government removed their crutch. Welfare shows people that they don't have to work when the government has to provide for them. I am a big believer in some people need to hit rock bottom before they realize that life takes a lot of work.
