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We often think of poverty in under developed countries, but it is happening all over America. Do you think this issue will be properly handled or even addressed?
I do not think that this issue will ever be adequately handled in America. There are a few contributing factors for this. For one, the system of checks and balances present in the United States prevents any substantial action from happening. For another, the culture of United States politics is to throw one big idea at a problem, and whether that worked or not, it will be abandoned after that one attempt. Finally, due to the elected nature of the leaders in the United States, officials can only get elected if they propose big solution plans that sound big and helpful and can actually be enacted within the length of their term.
Due to the way that an act or bill is passed in the United States, there are so very many steps and people that must be fully onboard with a plan before it can begin to take action. This lack of plans being tried results in less chances of a plan actually working, because if nothing is tried, nothing can work.
If a plan makes its way into action, the way that plans are handled in the United States guarantees that this will be the last plan to address the issue. This is because plans that are put into place by the government are funded by the government, and therefore not allowed to fail. This sounds good at first, but it also means that even if the plan is terribly ineffective and is having problematic side effects, there is a high likelihood that the plan will continue and will continue to drain funding. This draining of funding, coupled with the idea that the failed plan gives off of “We are already addressing that issue” means that any issue that this plan was designed to help will never actually receive helpful attention beyond the first serious attempt at it, even if that attempt does not work at all. As a result of this, I firmly believe that the poverty situation in the United States will never be properly addressed, at least not by the United States government.
