Posted on 09/01/2016 5:18:59 AM PDT by expat_panama
It worked in Lake Woebegone; why can’t it work in the rest of thew country?
It’s no WONDER our health system is so screwed up; when half of our doctors graduate with below average grades!!!
There's a famous line: "America is the only country in the world where the poor are fat".
The definition of "poverty" is continually shifting, and the effective political definition will always be "the standard of living of the bottom 10%", no matter how good it is compared to the standard of living of the middle class of decades prior.
There are people who are temporarily having bad times, there are the physically disabled, and then there are the people who just keep making bad decisions. The real issue regarding addressing poverty, is dealing with the last category.
IMHO, there will remain those in poverty, not because of any lack of work on their behalf, nor availability of resources, but simply because in God’s Plan, faith is more important than perfect environment.
It should be noted that each time in Scripture where Lucifer/Satan is recorded as falling, has been from a perfect environment.
The below average doctors don’t design the computer systems. The marketing departments of systems integrators like Accenture design the technology.
When I’ve attended their recruiting seminars, they very bluntly state that they don’t want people who create good solutions or solve problems. They want people who create a steady stream of problems that generate a steady stream of new projects.
The first 90% of the software budget creates the first 90% of the program(s).
The other 90% of the budget finishes the last 10% of the software.
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