What are we Catholics doing about poverty?

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1. Eileen Kovatch says:

   September 25, 2012 at 3:54 pm

   Tony, another perspective might be that poor people might improve their condition if they had jobs. If our country continues to spend more than it is taking in there would be few willing to make investments and establish businesses that create jobs.

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   • Tony says:

     September 25, 2012 at 4:08 pm

     Eileen, untill these people get jobs we need to help them as much as possible..we ar our brothers keeper.

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2. Recovering Catholic says:

   September 25, 2012 at 11:10 am

   In my opinion, the biggest reason poor people get caught in a perpetual cycle of poverty is by having children too early, before they can afford to take care of them, and especially if they have them out of wedlock.
   Solution: The school system should show films as early as grammar school showing what it is really like to have and take care of babies and what the parent can expect her life to be like if she does have them too early and out of wedlock. Hopefully showing films of that sort will instill the common sense to use birth control until someone is a mature person, capable of responsibility and sufficiently skilled to hold down a good job to support your family.
   The second major reason is lack of sufficient education.
   Solution: Stay in school; do your homework; work harder than your classmates; don’t waste your valuable time hanging out in the hood, watching mindless sitcoms or playing computer games after school. Understand that you have to take personal responsibility for your education. Go to the library and read and read and read and read. Write and write and write and write. Work at doing your math and science. Ask for assistance if you need it. In a nutshell, get the basic skills of life. It’s not the teacher’s job to magically make you educated if you don’t do your part.
   The third major reason is lack of job skills for the modern world.
   Muscle jobs have gone overseas and are not coming back. Everyone must develop skills for the jobs that exist in the U.S. in our modern world. Everyone should have a trade.
   Solution: Everybody coming out of high school should be fully equipped with skills and a trade and ready to work. Those who have the intellect will go onto college, but they, like everyone else, will have a trade to fall back on.

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   • Catholic Lady says:

     September 25, 2012 at 1:04 pm

     Common sense to use birth control? How about not having sex until you are married and/or not getting married until have finished school and you are able to provide for your self and your wife and family? How about not making purchases until you have the cash to pay for them? And finally How about loving your neighbour enough to offer an hand-up when you find him or her in need. When I was growing up, my family taught me to save..money, food and clothing and to give aid to others from what I had saved..I thank God for godly parents and grandparents..

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     • Recovering Catholic says:

       September 25, 2012 at 2:10 pm

       It’s unrealistic to think that young people at an age of raging hormones aren’t going to have sex. Therefore, at least protect yourself from a potential life of poverty. I’m sure the teaching of the Magisterium isn’t this, but they aren’t the ones who will otherwise be living in poverty, uneducated, unskilled and not able to cope without government assistance.

       Of course, we must help those with a hand-up who are truly in need once they end up truly in need, but my comments have to do with not getting into poverty and the need for government assistance in the first place.

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       • Catholic Lady says:

         September 25, 2012 at 4:20 pm

         Recovering; I have 4 children. 2 are Unversity Grads and two have a Trade. All were taught that if you did not wish to spend the rest of your life with the person that you were dating (due to an unplanned pregnancy) then you should not have sex, because we your parents would expect you to be responsible for our future grandchildren (which means you would be expected to marry). Sometime when we put high expectations or goals forward our children will indeed follow through and reach these goals. Three of my children are happily married and one, the youngest is still single.

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         • Concerned says:

           September 26, 2012 at 10:10 am

           And have you asked your single child if he/she is a virgin? Have you asked your married children if they use birth control? Or do you just stick your head in the sand and pretend? How many children does each child have? If you can’t answer these wuestions with facts about your own, how can you do so with others?

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           • Catholic Lady says:

             September 26, 2012 at 12:26 pm

             I have at this time nine grandchildren. (3×3=9) and my dear Concerned, I assure you that I have never been one to stick my head in the sand. Actually, I am more inclined to stick my head out.

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3. Tony says:

   September 25, 2012 at 9:36 am

   Paul Ryan is trying to balance the American budget on the backs of the poor of our county. That is one of the reasons nuns on the bus is so against it. That is how some Catholics are doing something to address poverty, by making the poor poorer.

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