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Thread #99746   Message #2062855
Posted By: Dickey
29-May-07 - 01:51 AM
Thread Name: BS: Poverty in the USA
Subject: RE: BS: Poverty in the USA
Also, I'm still waiting to read your fix for poverty that leaves the current distribution of wealth and income untouched.

The fix is to identify the things that cause it in the first place and eliminate them. One way to is to quit feeding them garbage, social poison.

I am waiting for you to tell me how your mitigating activity reduces poverty. It reduces the effects but does not reduce poverty. It does not break the cycle and therefore it grows worse.

As I have pointed out the wealthy and corporations donate to foundations and trusts that support programs to fight poverty.

Here is the 2004 tax return for the Gates foundation. It is 2565 pages long. It lists contributions such as $29,385,243.00 to the institute for world health to establish and validate a manufacturing process to makes artmisinin type drugs affordable for the world's poorest people.

$750,000,000.00 to The Vacine fund in Washington DC for general support.

$220,000.00 to the Seattle housing authority to support construction of Alder Crest Apartments and provide services to families in crisis during their period of transition to a more stable condition.