Edwards urges new war on poverty

JS Online ^ | Feb. 27, 2006 | LEONARD SYKES JR.

[Last Dakotan]

U.S. Rep. Gwen Moore brought former Sen. John Edwards to Milwaukee on Monday to talk about poverty in what was billed as a "community forum" on its effects in the city. But the event had the strong hint of another presidential campaign in the making for Edwards.

An overflow audience turned out at the Hillside Family Resource Center, 1452 N. 7th St., to hear Democrats Edwards and Moore discuss poverty and its impact on the nation and Milwaukee.

The event was the beginning of what Moore says will be an ongoing dialogue between her office and the public on poverty and how it contributes to other problems in Milwaukee.

But for former vice-presidential nominee Edwards - though he hasn't announced any intentions of doing so - it had the ring of laying the framework for another campaign, or at least laying the groundwork for a Democratic agenda in 2008.

Edwards said helping the poor up the economic ladder speaks directly to the moral character of America and the work that former President Lyndon Johnson left behind in his war on poverty of the 1960s.

"We want to do that again," Edwards said.

[Rebelbase]

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[oyez]

The working man got kicked out of the household.

I heard all I'm going to listen about poverty. We the nation have don all we can. WE pay out the noses for education, provide programs for this and that and give out every chance there is for people get out of poverty, yet it still exist. What we have to do is eliminate the culture of poverty, but there is to much money and power to be gained by keeping it alive. You can't build people up when the Sharpton- Farakans-Jacksons' tell the people the white man won't let them get ahead. They only propagate an inferiority complex for the masses.