"the poor continue to be poor because they keep doing the things that make them poor"
very true, along with concentration of wealth at the very top due to conservative ideology starting with Reagan, upward mobility of everybody below the top, esp those at and below middle class, has greatly decreased in the past few decades.
Essentially, everybody in the past 30+ years, except the very top, has stagnated or fallen back. and that white people. the pie has gotten a lot bigger, but not for everybody. iow, the system is gamed for the rich and against everybody else.
Now throw in being Hispanic or black, and it's worse.
Boortz and other hate-and-anger spewers work hard at hating, demagoguery, polarizing, baiting, paranoia, and this being America the Beautiful, all that pays very well.