The Irrelevant Poor

This blog is written mostly tongue in cheek. Some points may be informative. Please provide your feedback.
If you suffer from self-irrelevancy, please seek professional advice.

Hello. I was reminded yet again about how fortunate I am to be in the situation I'm in by a couple of recent events. One was watching the movie "The Pursuit of Happyness" with Will Smith playing Christopher Gardner, a tremendous rags-to-riches story. The other was seeing articles in the Toronto Star about poverty in Canada in general and Toronto in particular.
People who are poor are definitely irrelevant in our country. There is no political urgency to assist them. It's more urgent to help business people who employ minimum wage earners by keeping the minimum wage low.
Unfortunately, it seems like there is next to no way of breaking the "welfare wall" as the Star articles call it. Even Chris Gardner had a university education, and became broke because he had started an ill-advised business. Going from rags to riches when your rags are being uneducated and malnourished is another story. Compared to these people, Chris Gardner was very rich.
As in divorce, poverty affects the children most of all. Poverty is not just a daily bleak reality; it becomes the only world they know. This robs them of hope for a better future.
If you know anyone who is suffering especially now that winter weather has finally appeared, please assist them. If you want to know why, please read "Me to We" by the Keilburger brothers. It does a much better job of answering that question than I every could.

Regards,
Irrelevant