[Larry Lucido]

A second factor the working poor are where they are is due to jobs that don't secure a middle class existence like the old era manufacturing jobs used to do. And then there's the lack of affordable housing.

Just out of curiousity, can you point me to which 10 year period between 1900 and 2000 that was characterized by full employment, affordable housing and no working poor?

Okay, which 5-year period, then?

[goldstategop]

There's no such period. We've always had poverty. If there existed a magical solution to erase it, every one would have already found it. What I do know is socialism isn't the answer.

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." -Manuel II Paleologus

[ExSES]

Just out of curiousity, can you point me to which 10 year period between 1900 and 2000 that was characterized by full employment, affordable housing and no working poor?

The poor ye will have with thee always........