Why poverty never changes? No one living in poverty is asked about poverty.

I was watching PBS and the TV show was talking about how to eliminate poverty or make it better. The people who were interviewed meant well but they didn't know what the hell they were talking about. Everyone was discussing the best ways to deal with the poor except for the poor. They were not asked.  Maybe because we did not finish school or we only have a high school education. No one thinks we know anything but when it comes to Poverty its the poor who are the experts.


I wonder how people would feel if only poor people made policies affecting the lives of the Middle Class or the Wealthy based on assumptions that they just assumed middle class or wealthy experienced. The middle class and wealthy communities would be outraged.  This is how we feel when only middle class and wealthy people discuss our problems. Did you ever  once think that we might want to be part of the discussion.

I'm about to "drop some knowledge" on you. Guess what the information that most researchers receive from poor people is unreliable because people lie to the Researchers and tell them whatever they want to hear.  What people actually think of the Researchers is that they are like every other middle class people they had ever seen all up in the business and dangerous. They are not to be trusted.  Researchers, can live among out people for  years  and still  be seen as an outsider.


We see most middle class white women as social workers that are trying to rip our families apart and who will remove our children at the drop of a hat. This, of course, is not true but that doesn't mean the feelings of mistrust is not there. This is what we are used to White middle class people coming into our homes and removing children because they didn't like the fact that we disciplined our children by spanking.  Children and Youth Service in PA used to be this bad. They would remove your kid first and ask questions later even if no clear and present danger existed. They changed their names to Children Youth and Families and they will only remove the children in an emergency or where the children are not safe. Then you have the Caseworkers for Welfare or other social service agencies talking to you like you have no sense.  Do Gooders who think their very presence is a blessing and oh how the poor are so blessed to have my help.  We don't need your help we really don't care if you come to our neighborhoods or not.  What we hate the most is people that tell other middle class or wealthy people how they are heroes because they work with the poor give me a break.


We actually have some good ideas but no one ever asks us and until they do then your going to continue to have one poor bad policy after another.  Maybe if Congress would invite actual poor people from the hood or from the trailer parks maybe they could help. Oh and by the way, the poor black woman from the projects and the poor white woman from the trailer park  have discussed this either while sitting in some Social Services office waiting room waiting to be called or on the bus going to work.