Discussion#2: WHEN ALL ELSE FAILS, ROB THE
POOR
Rhetorical Analysis
In
Barbara Ehrenreich’s article, “When all else fails, rob the poor”, gave an
outstanding comparison of the thievery that is being conducted in our society by
individuals who prey on the poor. Those that steal from the poor through the
use of illegal means and those who steal through the use of an unjust system of
legal means.
Ehrenreich
believe that the system in which governs over us also allow for those, through legality
to prey upon us. Ehrenreich’s examples of how this legal thievery is being
conducted among the poor community of our society was not only to get our
attention to what has been taking place within the poor community, but also to give
awareness to the public of how this is
being conducted and examples of those individuals who are behind it.
The
ways in which the poor in our community are being attacked by the unjustness of
these legality, can and have, attached meaningless
criminal records to individuals of the poor community that were not warranted.
It is through these unjust means of thievery among our poor, in which Ehrenreich
addresses, that has turned many individuals among our poor community into the
harden criminals, in which the system can be blamed.
Ehrenreich’s article not only appealed to our
humanity in being able to comprehend the unfairness of our society’s legal
system but also in our need to understand why our system has become so corrupt
and to put forth ways in which we can help alleviate the perils which our poor
community faces every day.
In
conclusion to Ehrenreich’s article, we are reminded that no matter what one
owns or have, the system of legality can take it away, if one does not pay heed
to the basic needs of survival and go above that means to achieve a higher
standing without the backing to maintain, can and will have dire consequences.
Ehrenreich makes excellent points. In many ways it seems like the message from Batman Begins. The poverty being wrought on the people of this country by the corrupt and powerful has turned us largely into a society of criminals. Unless the rich and powerful can be stopped in their ever pressing quest for money and power they'll never be satisfied and they'll forever manipulate the legal system and flex their monetary muscles to maintain their strangle-hold on the country we the regular people will never be able to get out from under their boots and more and more of us will succumb to the need to make money outside the law. The greed and corrumption in this country is turning it into a lawless and crime-driven society. Ehrenreich's article proves that unless the legal system can be reigned in and put under control people will continually be pushed into poverty and there will be no end to the rising crime rate.
ReplyDeleteEhrenreich puts forward some serious and intriguing points about how the wealthy and powerful can use the legal system to prey upon the poor and weak. One way that this has been done recently is by the use of imminent domain to take control of entire neighbor hoods and then turn the land over to private corporations for their use.
ReplyDeleteIt is a system with many loopholes and exploits in it if you know where to look, unfortunately those who know where to look have had a better chance at studying up on these things than the average working person.