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This is a 5 page paper that provides an overview of the poor in America. The writer offers evidence that poverty is caused by social injustice rather than laziness. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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one. This has been especially true in recent months; the Occupy Wall Street protestors have complained that just 1% of the countrys population controls virtually all of the countrys wealth,
and engage in exploitative processes that socially stratify the other 99% and perpetuate a state of endemic poverty. To counter this view, many conservatives have attacked the 99% as simply
"lazy", asserting that their difficulties with unemployment and poverty are the result of a moral failing on their own part, rather than a flaw in the existing American corporate and
social infrastructure. This ideological position, that the poor are poor simply because they are lazy, is ultimately excessively reductive and, as the literature shows, does not at all represent the
truth of the matter. Definition This paragraph will help the student begin to define the problem. The problem represented here is one of an ideology of class division.
To begin with, any discrimination the poor face for being "lazy" is entirely irrelevant to begin with, as the United States has explicitly implemented welfare to act as the "poor
mans bootstrap" (Roane, 1996). Taking advantage of the welfare system may be culturally perceived as a state of laziness, but to cast the issue as a moral wrong is entirely
fraudulent: the system is there to be used by those having difficulty finding work, and to dismiss those who use it as inherently lazy and immoral is fundamentally misguided (Roane,
1996). Nevertheless, this distinction is quite rampant in American society. Studies have indicated that a national discourse of "class difference" has emerged in America wherein terms such as "redneck"
have been established as "rhetorical categories that refer to... poor people" (Jarosz & Lawson, 2002). As a result, classes of people are "represented as lazy, dirty [and] obsolescent", purely as
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