Comments about ‘The poverty antidote: Hope is vital to climbing the economic ladder’

"If the existing belief structure suggests if you work hard, individual effort will get you ahead, you are more likely to be hopeful than if the social norm is 'We've been discriminated against. The system is stacked against us.' It doesn't matter what you do, you are going to fail."

Excellent article, I wish it did not apply to the United Statas as well, but it does. There is a large group of politicians and "leaders" who tell some groups in our society that things are stacked against them and there is no point in trying.

Excellent piece, Elizabeth. I was not aware that there were microlending institutions designed to help the poorest of the poor. Do you know if sites such as Kiva supports these institutions?

This reminds me of President Ezra Taft Benson's message in the July, 1989, Ensign Magazine: "The world would take people out of the slums. Christ takes the slums out of people, and then they take themselves out of the slums."

I admire all who do such Christian work. Their works qualifies them as Christians even if they say otherwise. It is enough for me to know that they want the lives of other people to improve.

As they now stand, our visa laws no longer qualify us as a Christian nation, regardless of what the far right may profess. I pray that we may reform our cruelly strict visa quotas. In their current form they mock the words of the Statue of Liberty: "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free...."

Hope is the submission to poverty in third world countries and illegal foreign nationals occupying the United States. Hope is a way of life that does not inspire dreams and the will to overcome poverty.

Want to know why americans never say or hope for things to be handed them? Because they desire to overcome poverty by their own doing and independence. Hope has never overcome poverty and charity feeds poverty and dependence. Charity must turn hope into united will to overcome and stop feeding it with pity and a can of beans and butter.

Overcoming poverty does not require any education or specail knowledge, it is something that just is in the US. We are a living example of the lie that education creates jobs because we are so over trained we don't have jobs to hire educated people or slaves.

Oppressive Obama economy has turned a nation of dreams and Independence into a nation of slackers and hopefuls. This oppressed U.S. economy and poverty has been created by business that called americans greedy workers, like we are not allowed to live above poverty and we don't anymore.