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Thread #99746   Message #2015690
Posted By: Bobert
03-Apr-07 - 08:11 PM
Thread Name: BS: Poverty in the USA
Subject: RE: BS: Poverty in the USA
Now I'd like to make a comment about "education"... Yes, while education seems to be that threshold that folks who don't really understanf the cycle of poverty, it is the "holy grail" but...

...this is for folks who don't understand what it is laike to grown up in poverty these days... And it is somewhat part of the4 problem in breaking the cycle of poverty but...

... it isn't the folks who are stuck in the hampster wheel of povertyy but the folks who have some "power" to exert their values on the folks who spend the money...

Yeah, the folks who nedd some educatin' are the folks here, like Dickey, but not only Dickey but the Dickies of the world who would rather preach to poor peoploe how to get outta of poverty which is like speaking a forieng language or smugly balaming folks for bad choices...

Either way, it won't break the cycle... No, the American people in general need to be educated, top to bottom... And if that were to occur then we could get the War on Poverty back on track... There isn't a silver bullet herer but many pieces of buckshot that need to be fired in this war...

And yeah, it's gonna take breakfast programs... It's gonna take more $$$ for child care subsidies... It's gonna take more Section 8 housing... Bottom line, inspite of the right wing rhetoric that you can't fix problesm with money, it's goning to take money...

Heck, we give Billions and billions to rich fat cats wioth the hope that it will trickle down... It's time to level the playing field and invest those billions in our poor and let it trickle ****up****....

This is some basic bottom line stuff here...

Bobert