Haven't had much computer time over the last last 3 days and not mush this evening but since I was last here I noticed a very distinct pattern... There are two camps here...

One camp wants to discuss some very heady stuff...

The other, for what ever reasons, has no interst in discusssing the subject but throwing out endless stats, re-enforcing what my Stats 201 professor told the class on the 1st day which was, "I can use stats to prove 1 = 2 or anything I want to prove..." and then on to prove that 1 = 2!!!

Stat folks, you know, the ones who somehow come up with those 1 = 2 kinda stas in discussions seem to me to be hiding from the realities of the discussion... That's been my obseravtion throughout my life and it holds here in Mudville...

But that's kinda about ***values***... Yeah, there are folks who rather than say to themselves "Hmmmmm, poverty is a real thing... There are millions of kids that will go hungry tonight... What can I do" who rather than stop there will go searching for stats that say the oppisite...

The only conclusion on why folks would dismiss poverty, or balme it on it's vitims, is that these folks hust don't want to share... I can't think of any other reason why folks would go to such an extent to ***rationalize*** po9verty as some kind of ***career choice***???

So, yeah...

...it does come down to "values"...

Some folks "value" every life and have a desire that everyone has an equal right to prosperity and happiness...

Some folks don't and have a "value" that, "If you din't want to be poor, you should have picked richer parents..."

Okay, to be fair, some folks do find their way outta the cycle... But it's very few... Janie and I have seen it up close...

Bobert