Poverty is engineered. It’s by design.

We want to blame the poor for the conditions they are struggling to cope with, further stomping on those who are already down. In fact there are laws to punish people who are poor - property seizure, denial of service, even jail time. It is becoming more and more clear that poverty is being created and perpetuated on purpose.

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In the USA banksters are using illegal foreclosures to steal people’s property,

and sheriff’s departments are used as a strong-arm to force people into homelessness when they are unable to meet the terms of their loans. These loans, which are crafted to fail by institutions that are making “put options” against the mortgages of the poor, then profiting off of the people’s failure to pay their monthly dues. The banksters are willing to completely forgive loans amongst each other, while they buy and sell our debts at pennies on the dollar, turning profits off of our debts.

Banksters punish us for not having enough money. Overdraft fees were only the beginning. Now the banksters make you pay for your own money, whether it’s at the ATM or if you don’t have a minimum balance in your account. If you are too poor, it’s going to cost you to have your money in the bank. If you have money, you don’t pay the bank fees. Instead you earn interest payments while the poor pay fees; fees which can force a poor person into negative balances.

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While the banksters continue to victimize the poor, the government is rolling back consumers protections.

Allowing predatory lenders to further rob the people in our society who are already at risk. It’s not enough for the elites to take their profits, they push our elected officials for further handouts, in the form of tax breaks, subsidies, tariffs on their competitors, or free reign to pillage the retirement accounts of the poor. Equity in this country is quickly fading.

People in our government, whether it’s state, local, or federal are all working out of the same play book. The plan seems pretty clear at this point. Criminalize poverty, and lock the poor away, or force them into servitude.

People who are born into poverty in the USA are almost certain to remain poor for their lifetime. Wealth is a social club, and if you weren’t born into it, then you can only be an onlooker. The good old boys’ network is in place, and it is working just fine for the people on top.

The flipside to criminalizing the poor is affluenza. Where you get special permission to violate the law. Whether it’s rape, drugs, theft, or even murder, the wealthy class of people consistently receiving special treatment from police, judges and regulators. Wealth allows people special treatment. They are, in effect, above the law. Wealth is granted to the elites, it’s not earned or worked for, it’s a birthright; while poverty is a physical death sentence. The poor are not lesser people. Just like the wealthy, the poor put their pants on one leg at a time.

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Our nation is heading towards a civil war. Right now we see a radicalization of the right, bigots who claim their race makes them superior to the rest of us. All too soon it will be a full-blown class war, the right and left will both be forced into poverty. Food riots will be a real thing in the USA, and the ruling class will be eating amuse-bouche inside of their gated communities, sitting behind private security guards while the poor will be starving to death.

If you can’t imagine this reality, if you are insulated from these harsh truths, it’s up to you to decide if you are willing to watch as the class war ramps up, or if you are going to make a stand with the commoners in an effort to regain the American dream for all.

I like to remember that money can accomplish nothing on it’s own, without the hard-working individuals who actually get the things done, money does nothing. Money has no thumbs, it has no brain, and it certainly doesn’t have a stomach. Money is both a manacle for the poor, and a parachute for the wealthy. While the poor are shackled with debt and uncertainty, the wealthy are buoyed with privilege. While the poor languish in jail cells for lack of bail, under charges yet untried by any court, the wealthy line the pockets of judges, and leverage influence on the golf course, finding more wealth behind velvet ropes and in penthouse hot tubs.

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In the USA being poor means you don’t get quality education;

being poor means you don’t get quality health care; being poor means living in high crime neighborhoods where ecological racism makes the air toxic and the water poisonous; being poor means you have to eat toxic foods which are killing you; being poor means grocery stores won’t even open locations in your neighborhood.

We in the USA are quite literally becoming a two-tiered society, where wealth equals privilege, and poverty is the same as a death sentence. Poor people have a lesser life expectancy and are subject to a lower quality of life on all fronts. And the disparity is steadily growing.

It’s hard to talk about wealth and poverty in the USA, as it’s considered taboo to talk about religion, money, and politics. The result is that the haves and the have-nots can’t even sit in the same room with each other; and if they do, the wealthy are as likely as not to look down with disdain on the poor, rather than making an attempt at understanding the challenges of poverty. People who are entitled don’t want to see the poor, this is why we have laws which criminalize philanthropy. Lawsuits which punish churches and homeless shelters for locating too close to those elites who so loathe the poor. In some areas it’s a crime to sit, stand, lay, eat, sleep or pray if you are poor, but the rich never face enforcement of these crimes. They are given a pass by law-enforcement who fear that the wealthy will sic a high-powered lawyer on their department.

The wealth gap is growing quickly. One study says that in our lifetime people of color will not have any money. Let that sink in for a moment. PEOPLE OF COLOR WILL NOT HAVE ANY MONEY. Our system of checks and balances in the USA has become so skewed towards white privilege that they will financially have it all.

There are solutions to the issues of wealth disparity, universal basic income being one. Another has to do with mutual aid, and walking away from supporting our own oppression. Our media portrays these solutions as socialism, and says they are only a small step away from communism. It may be true that in a sense these solutions run counter to the capitalist ideals, however I far prefer socialists ideals to watching class warfare wreck the already tattered dreams of the poor.

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