LOL....

Well, ahhhh, how do I put this so it won't come off as rude... Okay, given the things you have said on this thread you, IMHO, come off as very maternal... You have advice on everything from how to save a few cents on this or that to figuring out how to apply for this or that job...

Please don't get me wrong... These are attributes... They are valuable life lessons... They would sho nuff come in handy if one day *you* woke up in an alley in some uirban area and needed to figure out how to survive... Might of fact, my wife, the P-Vine, is very much like you... She is a real pioneer woman... Cans food... Clips coupons and all that...

But its like what you and my wife have is like a square peg in a round hole when it comes to sharing this knowledge with poor people... Yeah, like I've said, the folks who work for me are poor people and, bless her heart, she tries to be helpful in their lives but it comes off as too motherly and they don't buy one danged bit of it... I, on the other hand, being street hardened at an early age have no problems gettin' my message thru... Okay, perhaps I don't know the "survival" details that you and my wife know but what I do know I have no problem in teaching...

Yeah, we can be as righteously motivated as one can be but if we don't have the humility to communicate with poor folks then we are talkin' down to poor folks... Poor people aren't stupid and they know when folks is talking down to 'um...

Yeah, I know you probably won't get this, mg, 'casue you didn't get it the last several times I've tried to communicate it bit it is a large part, if we are serious about fighting a war on poverty, that all the warriors will have to have down pat 'cause this war won't be fought with cops....

Bobert