Prepare for a lot of anti-poor people comments

On what planet is a rapist "nice"? The boiler room guy made Hannah choose between possible death (the storm in the movie is directly modeled after a winter storm in NYC that claimed the lives of multiple homeless people) and she tried to brave the storm and simply couldn't make it to the Brooklyn shelter on foot despite trying, she clearly did not want to do what he was demanding of her in return for his "niceness" but after braving the storm and seeing that she wasn't going to make it deep into Brooklyn in a blizzard she had no good choices. If someone has to choose between freezing to death in a blizzard or having sex that is not being nice, that is rape.

Maybe that's why sexual assault is such a problem, so many people confuse it with being "nice".

There are men, who become homeless, because the domestic court awards the home to their spouses, and they had jobs before that point, so yes, able bodied people from the second group can seep into the first one by no fault of their own.

Sexual education is not a federal, but a state program. Only 22 states out of 50 offer sexual education, and out of the 22 only 13 have anatomically correct education. A few years back in Texas, after the only option offered was abstinence only, the number of STDs and teenage pregnancies came on the rise. When it was offered, that PP would chip in to offer up to date knowledge on the subject, PTAs revolted against it. That's neither empathy nor personal responsibility. The ruling on the law that was supposed to ban pregnancy termination clinics has just recently been ruled unconstitutional, also not very much on the endorsing part of personal responsibility. For pro-lifers, one being unable or unwilling to care for a child is no reason to deny the option to not get into a quagmire. I don't doubt you being a fellow fiscal conservative, but it's not like social conservatives don't have some lucid expectations.

Restricting businesses? Interesting idea. If there weren't anti discriminatory laws in place, they'd even hire less people, whom they can pay the least that is legally required. It's also why many businesses employ undocumented people, hard to say no to sub par circumstances that many Americans wouldn't take. Those in a bind taking it also rarely have health insurance coverage. For example, plenty of Walmart employees were on food stamps besides their salaries. 2 of your offerings are actually counter intuitive, namely to finish school as high a degree as possible, and to work in manufacturing jobs. The latter is filled with people who don't have higher education, otherwise they would be the foreman, the engineer, the mid level management.

Not to mention, almost all of this relies on a hiring culture, that isn't racist, sexist or homophobic, which does work in big cities (NY, LA) but not in smaller ones. Grouping homeless people around being able bodied is but the surface. People get on the street due to foreclosure, addiction, mental illness, divorce, but also for not believing in god or just being LGBT. There aren't many arguments for personal responsibility when thrown out for being an atheist or gay, if only they had lied about themselves, and stayed as little complacent elves.

Being rich isn't the problem, the constantly shrinking number of self made people is. Trust fund babies do not compare to people who worked for it, and they also exploit several loopholes offered by the tax code, with some even making money off of bankruptcy, that gets people pissed off, and the widow mortgage scheme.

Besides the problem with this couple wasn't even homelessness, for one, I could mention Tahir lying on his visa application, since in case he hasn't lied to her, being a member of a well known terrorist organization pretty much bars anyone from entering the US.

I live in the Gordius Apartment Complex, my interior designer was M.C. Escher.

Which has zero to do with the system being "rigged."

Also, define "good point in time" for the economy. There are loads of people who get wealthy during hard financial times.

And, I'm not saying it is easy. I'm just saying that the overwhelming majority of time it comes down to the effort a person puts forward. Instead of demanding $15/hour for a part-time burger flipping job, the successful person goes and gets a second job to make more money.

I've made this offer before. I would sign a non-disclosure agreement, stating that I could not discuss with anyone the financial standing of the person in question. Then, I would audit that person and if I couldn't find where they p!ssed away $10,000 over a two-year period, I'd pay them $1,000. If I could find it, then they'd have to pay me $1,000.

No one ever took me up on it. I really didn't expect them to, but for some it was they got back several thousand $ on their tax return, and then used that to pay for their big vacation. They didn't like my suggestion of dumping 75% of that into their 401.k or IRA and skipping a big vacation one year.