<p dir="ltr">On May 27, 2016 11:13 AM, "Rafal Smigrodzki" <<a href="mailto:rafal.smigrodzki@gmail.com">rafal.smigrodzki@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> Before you "starve" there are warnings, hundreds and thousands of warnings. There are years where every day you can make the right or the wrong choices.<br>
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> Being "poor" in America is a choice, and choices can be modified by incentives.</p>
<p dir="ltr">It is a choice, on the child's part, to be born to parents who fail to provide for their children?</p>
<p dir="ltr">It is a choice to be unaware of educational opportunities, and to have been told all your life that education is somehow a bad thing/only used by the enemy who oppresses you and your family?</p>
<p dir="ltr">It is a choice to have addictive, health-depleting drugs forced on you before you are mentally capable of appreciating the dangers?</p>
<p dir="ltr">There are ways out of poverty. But not all of the ways in are entirely voluntary. Some people wind up starving and must be dealt with on that level, before they can be dealt with as rational people who can afford the time to learn employable skills.</p>