Bobert:

I never said it would not take money to "fix" poverty but the money should be spent in the right places.

Education is one factor. Parental neglect is another.

And yes, people should be told when they make bad choices. Like this: Here is a good choice and here is a bad choice. Joe made a bad choice and he suffers. If you make a bad choice you will suffer like Joe. It is not rocket science.

But you still have not explained who rents the apartments that cost below average or why you say the money for breakfast programs should be brought back. Spending on school breakfast programs has gone up not gone away so please explain your rhetoric.

I just remembered that my dad told me he had a car that was so worn out that the spark plug holes were stripped. He had to wrap a strip of a rag around the threads and screw in the spark plugs real gently to get them to stay. He had to featherfoot the gas pedal or the plugs would pop out and put dents in the hood. It was a flat head.