"Over the past two decades, debate
has raged regarding whether traditional liberal or conservative solutions to
the urban crisis are more appropriate," (Gottdiener et al. 2015). This
debate has gone on for over many years, but is there ever a solution one may
ask? In chapter 13 it discusses urban policy and the political debate. Should
one go with the liberal side, which they support government intervention or
should one go with the conservative side, which they support limited government
intervention.
Gottdiener et
al. (2015) mentions Edward Banfield, who argued that poor people aren’t
motivated to get jobs. Now let’s discuss this for a second, I don’t believe
that is true at all. In society today the classes have changed dramatically. It
was easy to determine the classes, such as the poor, middle, upper-middle class
and the rich or upper class. In society today we have the poor, middle class
and upper class. The cost of living has skyrocketed tremendously and it’s hard
to afford costly things. People are barely making it which even if you pay your
bills on time and barely have enough money left you are barely reaching middle
class. As far as the poor not having the motivation to find jobs is simply B.S.
I believe now it is hard to find a good paying job because every white-collar
job requires a higher degree and a butt load of experience. This is half the
reason why poor people can’t find jobs and if they have a job they may have to
have more than one to support their family.
Now back to the
topic at hand, which one would be beneficial to society, conservative or
liberal? In my opinion I believe that liberal would be the best choice because government
intervention have ups to it. “Poverty and associated problems of uneven
development are the inevitable consequence of the fact that economic rewards
and social opportunities are not equally available to all citizens,”
(Gottdiener et al. 2015). I completely agree with this statement because in
reality certain people such as a black woman for example have to work harder
than a black man and especially harder than the white man. I say this because
my mom has to work extremely hard at her job and even though women are working
and have high paying jobs we still have to work twice as hard because we are
not a man. Liberals also believe that government programs keep individuals from
falling. Which I believe that is also true because even though you may have
people that use the government system just because it’s there, you have a lot
of individuals that are barely paying the bills and barely putting food on the
table. Also the people who can’t afford insurance for their children they get
help with that also. All in all I believe that government help is necessary in some cases.
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