[Margaret Pilkington]

So then what is your solution?
There will always be poor people...and by that I mean that some people will remain poor whatever is done.
I have been poor and what this meant was that there was no money(not a red cent in my mothers purse) and no food. What is more there was absolutely no welfare to help us out of the hole. We didn't rob from others who were just like us. My mother pawned her wedding ring to put food on the table.

What this taught me was you have to rely on yourself. You have to do what you can to make your own life better.
There are always going to be those who are rich......that is how life is.....unless you live in China or some other communist country(and there is bribery and corruption in those societies too).......so come up with some better system.

Stop sending aid money overseas to countries that have despotic rulers, to countries that have space programs, to countries that have the lions share of all commercial markets(China)...spend the money on projects in this country that will give real work to jobless youngsters.
Stop paying those who are able bodied to stay at home and live off the tax payer.