JERRY AGAR

How not to be poor

Posted By: Jerry Agar · 7/24/2012 8:11:00 AM

The perpetually poor are not blameless.

Society’s efforts to curb violence and relieve poverty are for naught unless people want to change.

Anyone can find themselves in unplanned and unforeseen unfortunate circumstances.

Most people, eventually, by their own effort and/or with the help of others, overcome adversity.

Some people, however, are perpetually poor.

Why? Because they don’t do the things required of them to move up and out.

With apologies to Stephen R. Covey, here are the seven habits of highly unsuccessful people.

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  1. ArtC posted on 07/24/2012 11:52 AM
    whatever Jerry Agar and Steven Covey are for i'm against!
  2. Ray Fox posted on 07/24/2012 10:31 PM
    I heard part of your show the morning of July 24 and agree with your comments. Coincidentally, I read some interesting statistics in the Time magazine issue of Jan 30, 2012. A study by the Brookings Institution--a liberal think tank in the U.S.--found that if you do three things--graduate from high school, don't have children until you're married, and work--your chances of winding up poor are 2%. These results apply to all races.

    In my opinion, the out of wedlock birth rate is the crucial statistic. In the U.S. it is 41% overall but 70% for blacks. To those that say that this fact is a result of poverty, statistics reveal that well off older black women have children out of wedlock at a 35% rate, compared to 2% for whites. (These figures may be a little off but essentially correct.)

    i feel this is a cultural failure in the black community. It is not something easy to acknowledge without attracting ferocious criticism, so the authorities tap dance around it. And I do not have any solutions on how to change attitudes. Certainly another basketball court will not help.
    1. Ethio posted on 07/25/2012 10:53 PM
      @Ray Fox What else we expect from the Jewish and messenger, Jerry should have the same answer during the Nazi era.

      Why the Jew were poor at that time.
      The Jews committed Cultural genocide, secretly Chemical, Biological and Radiological attack against Christian Ethiopian-Canadians in Canada and elsewhere.

      The Jewish Community is excessively over represented by their own people: in Government and private sector positions. The Jewish are denying Christian Ethiopian-Canadians jobs and educations. They want Canada to be turned into Middle-East.

      Christians, Wake-up before it is too late.
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  3. blackmother posted on 07/25/2012 12:12 AM
    Jerry I agree with you. Also to add, these so call programs are not working.What is lacking are parenting skills and people with low self-esteem. What needs to be done is to allocate more funding towards education ; hire more teachers and reduce class sizes in these priority neighbourhoods and start teaching life skills from K - Grade 6 where all subjects are compulsory. How many of these parents send/take their children to these after school programs; many of them don't even show for parent teachers interview.
    We have a big problem in this city and everyone need to get together to solve it.And yes a white man can be a role model to a black child.
  4. SteveB_10 posted on 07/25/2012 01:56 PM
    How not to do healthcare
    http://boingboing.net/2012/07/24/uninsured-aurora-shooting-vict.html
  5. Richard Collins posted on 07/25/2012 03:37 PM
    Jerry, I'd love it if you could have a talk with one of my wife's friends. She's carrying the child of a drunk who beat her up, which was only conceived because she refused to use protection, and she's in no place financially or intellectually to raise it; and yet none of us can convince her to get rid of the child for it's own good, as well as hers. This old world is going crazy.
  6. john posted on 07/25/2012 10:06 PM
    have a bank eat some of your mortgage dept
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