Keeping the poor poor

Yesterday, Mitt Romney said he was not concerned about the poor, they have a safety net and if it needs repairing he will fix it.  The Obama people intend to use just the "not concerned about the poor" as a tool against Romney in the campaign in November.  They intend to take the statement out of context to persuade voters to reject Romney.  But this is not a tactic unique to the Democrats.  Even Romney used a line from a speech delivered by Obama which was a quote from John McCain.  I think that these tactics are not only dishonest but they all but scream out to us "you are so stupid that I can say anything and you will believe me.".   I once told a friend never to read to someone a passage from a book which says "I hate you and I am going to kill you."  I told her if that person were to wind up dead, a prosecuter, with the judge's permission, would force an admission that my friend said this to the victim and a conviction could ensue.  Taking things out of context can have terrible consequences.  At least when Romney was called on his use of a statement from the Obama speech, he owned up to it and said "what's good for the goose is good for the gander." 

I don't know if Romney cares about the poor.  But I do know that Democrats don't care about them.  Democrats have the monopoly on keeping people in poverty.  While the poor need a safety net which does need fixing, it is the Democrats who oppose school choice, support teachers unions, support dumbing down education, insert the loopholes in the tax code, think it is okay for immigrants not to learn English, allow the Walmarts to come into town and drive out small businesses, create an environment in the inner cities which foster food deserts, and promise a chicken in every pot in exchange for a vote. 

But every thinking person knows a safety net, even a fixed one, is not the solution to poverty.  The only solution is to provide a vehicle out of poverty.   Whether we like it or not, we, as a people, are joined at the hip.  So long as there is no way for an individual to get, he will take.  We need to come to the realization that if one person is in poverty, we are all in poverty.