The Poor Are the Plague of the Earth Now in U.S.? Different Treatment for Others?
Question by warning2Dpublic: The poor are the plague of the earth now in U.S.? Different treatment for others?
Have been living in U.S. for last 40 years, have seen entire country change but not as fast as in last few years. One thing which has been changing in extreme negative way is how the poor are seen. I’m NOT talking about food stamp cuts, or how Tampa_and soon Miami_will be making homelessness almost completely illegal.
I refer to fact that most poor or extremely poor married couples or boyfriend/girlfriend households with children, are seen as everyone’s doormat. Today a 2 year old died in Hialeah (city next to Miami) after having been in coma for few days. He got that way after falling from second story hotel window_while their parents must have been doing drugs, according to police.
Even before the cocaine was brought up into the scenario, the police department was judging and sentencing these parents who, afterall, were losing a son that very moment. The man could have been out for beer (notice I don’t say “diapers”) and the wife could have been taking a shower or heating up coffee or something in microwave, and the child would have climbed on window and fallen out. NOTHING was even mentioned about security (or lack of it) in the hotel window.
In less than 3 months 12 children in South Florida had died while under DCF’s care, some of them by torture and sexual assault at the hands of acquaintances or neighbors. NOTHING happened to the DCF employees who either didn’t have proper certificates or shouldn’t have been in their jobs after NOT reconizing the repeated signs of abuse and totally ignoring relatives, neighbors, etc. who had blown the whistle about dangers surrounding the children. If those children had died while under no DCF watch, the parents would permanently be in jail for years to come.
Days ago I noticed how Jennifer Lopez’ teenage looking boyfriend was swinging her children head down on the beach same way Michael Jackson famously dangled one of his infants years back through a hotel window in Europe. And now I see this story about this middle-class couple and the way the father descibes it all “I see my son just ‘gracefully and peacefully’ doing this ‘full layout back flip’, landing flat on his back on the sand”…Such poetic words could only come from the lips of an educated man. Mind you the baby is six months old!
“He sniffled a little bit, but my dad is a ‘peditrician’ and looked him over and said, ‘Oh, he’s fine’!”
http://gma.yahoo.com/blogs/abc-blogs/family-photo-session-not-average-day-beach-193509461–abc-news-parenting.html
In Miami and immediate surrounding areas, in less than 3 days, news about 3 different pedestrians-killed-by-cars where extremely wealthy people were involved in two of the incidents, all had incredibly different endings, including one case where a Venezuelan tycoon abandoned his Lamborghini or Ferrari (can’t remember which) in middle of road as he fled on foot after killing someone with his car. Even when police know where he lives and that the car belongs to him, “he contacted them ONLY when he figured it was safe”, but ONLY by phone and NOT saying much on advice of his attorneys. Police haven’t seen his face–neither have the public.
The other case was that of an also car racing rich guy, this one from Brazil: 3 months after killing a pedestrian, Miami’s DA’s office declared that alcohol results were inconclusive and it can neither be proven he was under influence of drugs, so case was dropped.
Third case was that of an also Brazilian–this one NOT wealthy, but simply a musician–who’d run over and killed a young cyclist. Didn’t read much, so wouldn’t know the victim was wealthy but his case did get a lot of attention because of hundreds of young professionals (many, of course, wealthy) who were cyclists, who made sure to be at the court and at news conferences all the time in order to be seen and heard.
The young Brazilian musician WILL be spending the next 12 years behind bar….BTW, don’t know what became of the “party girl” who also fled the scene for four miles until aprehended by some who gave chace. Nor about the wealthy chef/entrepeneur who days before or days after her, had killed one or two men after climbing with his car onto the sidewalk.
There are dozens, if not hundreds, of stories still fresh on my mind from this year alone in Miami. It makes me wonder how the police, DA, and others, feel when judging the very poor so swiftly and so harshly.
Best answer:
Answer by clayton christensen
In this country you get what you pay for. We have the best government money can buy and you should have already known this. You have to willing to work hard and fight to be treated well. The harder you work, the more luck you will have.
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