Well, Kipp, I'm hearing a lot of floks saying these days that things are "complex" as if to say that us common folks just shouldn't worry our purdy heads over stuff that we don't know nuthin' about...

And, no, this isn't meant to be critical of what you have said but more a general defense of current policies that claerly aren't working..

Poverty is not all that complex... It's causes are not all that complex... And the solutions are not all that complex...

What is complex is how we get folks to understand just how badly they have been brainwashed into thinking relatively simple things are over our heads...

I am being perfectly serious here...

This is about collective values and in these days and times most people don't have the slighest clue why they believe what they believe because they are working way too hard and living way too fast and they don't have time to deleve into issues so they just hitch their beliefs to bumper sticker length opinions that really aren't based in reality but based on what ad-men and political spinsters want to instill... This really isn't a value sytem but more rote memory coupled with the emotions of partisanship...

But when we strip it all away, what we find are some very ugly motives of greed, money and power by those who hire the ad-men and own the radio talk shows...

No, nuthin' too complex about any of this... Ross Perot ran a very sucessfull 3rd party campaign in '92 and the crux of what he had to say was simple, "We have all the plans, we just need the will..."

Well, we have the plans now... We know, for instance, that if a woman can't afford to pay for child care with what she makes that one of two things will happen: either she'll have to quit working or someone is going to have to pitch in to help with the child care...

This is just one example of just how simple things are... Any component of the war on poverty can be looked at simply... There is no complexity... Just a matter of will... And a matter of putting ad-men tapes out of our heads and allow very simple common logic take over where the ad-men have cluttered our collective thinking...

This ain't rocket surgery...

Bobert