re: Poverty is a moral failure

I agree. Poverty is the moral failure of the individual who is in poverty, period. No one else's fault. Not the government, not the city, not the county and not their next door neighbor. Each individual in the US is provided a means to correct wrongs if they can prove it...so blaming it on another person/entity has to have merit...otherwise you're merely complaining.

We all can be in poverty if we want to...just throw your hands up and say, "frick it". I'm not doing anything to survive or make money...you'll soon find yourself in poverty. If "born into poverty" individuals can make a change...they just have to make up their minds to do it and go through with the plans. People do it all the time. For example "I was the first person from my family to graduate from college". That person made a change...they felt it necessary to climb up.

In the end...in the US....poverty is the individual's choice. No one elses.