Obviously there was a big problem with population growth in Europe in the 16th century. The problems they are facing because of this are numerous. The main problem set forth in the reading was with the divers (beggars). It is a common problem that urban cities face. If you have ever been to a large city (Boise doesn't really count although there are beggars here too) like Seattle, Portland, New York, or Chicago they have several areas where beggars and homeless people are rampant.
It is an issue that has lasted for 5 centuries and lawmakers are still trying to come up with a solution for. The poor law in the reading this week was trying to come up with a solution. The negative thing the draft does is try to blame the poor for being poor. They list all the reasons someone could become poor and have to beg. This is a common trend in the history of elitism. This is true for different disciplines as well. The history of education goes through the same elitism and blaming the poor for there poverty. Population influx is a major problem and will be until the number of people quite growing... ya right
Some would argue that war and disease is a way of population control. It that is the truth maybe that is the reason for the black plague running through Europe for centuries.
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I agree with what you're saying here, and it's amazing to think the same type of problem has lasted for SO long and yet there is still no solution. It seems if the government was to put even a quarter of the money they put into all the other aspects of a country toward programs that created jobs that paid enough for a person to survive that we would be headed in the right direction out of this mess. Money and effort are often times pointed in the wrong direction. We bleed millions of dollars to foreign countries for re-building but we would never dare spend that type of money here at home. It's really a shame.
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