"Can I get Dickey to respond to this ******in his own words***** and without right wing blog crap... I mean, this is the real world."

Bobert, you are the one that cut and pasts left wing crap statistics here.

As for the Mothers, I have been trying to tell you for a long time here, no matter what you do for the mothers, you will only have an increasing amount of mothers in need unless you find and eliminate the causes for mothers in need.

I saw a person on Cspan talking about the effect high stakes testing on the schools.

In the course of his speaking he said, if I remember it correctly "kids spend 1000 hours in school and 5000 hours in an unhealthy community and in an unhealthy family. We are trying to correct for the unhealty family and the unhealthy community in the schools. It is amazing what the schools do accomplish in those 1000 hours."

I bounced this off of my wife which has been in education all her life including teaching at Johns Hopkins, and she agreed. I said to her "the only way I can see for them to escape poverty is through education." See agreed and added that they also need better examples to follow.

I say the root of the problem is family values and the community/environment in which poor people are raised, not in a lack of bandaids to apply to the wounds.

Now you can rip me to shreds with personal assults for my opinions written in my own words and get back to your posting of left wing crap about the US government spending $500,000 for security screening for a Wall Street helipad in Manhattan when in the *******real******* world, the screening is done by a private company and paid for by the passengers or how apartments rent for $1300 minimum when in the *******real****** world, $1300 is the average.