Posted on 03/02/2007 3:11:24 PM PST by MovementConservative
Oh gee, there's a surprise.
There's a good example of what the causes of poverty are. The Washington Metropolitan area has an unemployment rate of something like 3.7%. The suburban jobs are easily accessible by subway and/or bus.
But the Washington school system is abysmal. Even the few who graduate are often functionally illiterate. Most of the children are born to unwed teen-age mothers. And over half of the males are in the penal system somehow.
The drug trade is alive and well, but that income isn't counted in these statistics.
The solution to poverty in this country is obvious. Give the kids an education. Tell them to stay off drugs and not have children until they are married and one of the parents has a job. Walter Williams says it; John McWhorter says it; Bill Cosby says it; and now Juan Williams is saying it.
Until we fix the educational system, we're not going to improve a thing.
Deport these illegals and half the problem is solved.
Wonder how the extremely poor correlates with the extremely illegal immigrant.
How many of the kids have iPods or PS2?
When I was a young man, poverty was much less widespread.
And a majority of folks who were classified as "poor" still had morals and self respect.
Then LBJ kicked off the "Great Society"
This led to a major breakdown of the family structure.
Which led us to the mess we have today.
I agree with you completely. LBJ's "Great Society" made men expendable, if not a handicap. Mothers couldn't get benefits like welfare payments or subsidized housing if the father(s) of their babies were around.
How did we ever expect teen-aged girls to raise their boys to be men if they never had one in their lives?
I worked in small villages in China, a thousand miles inland, in the late 1970s. People lived in one-room mud wall buildings, no glass in the windows, earthen floors and thatched roofs. No running water, no electricity, no heating system, no sanitation, no phones. When nature called, you hung your naked bum over the neighborhood honey pot. The village "market" had fly-covered meat on display sitting on the dirt road. Cargo boats were pulled up the Yangtze River by men tugging on tow ropes. The boat loads of bricks were unloaded by children about 6 years old with 50 pound bamboo baskets on their backs. People were assigned to empying the honeypots and pouring the waste onto the fields.
That was POVERTY!
Of course, that's what our Global Warming friends desire for all of us in their zeal to end the consumption of fossil fuel.
Something baffles me, there - the Chinese have probably the second oldest society on earth, very stable, and with rules you can live with.
How come they still live in mud huts?
(Everybody swallow your communism comments - this particular phenomenon predates communism by, I dunno, 10,000 years?)
Why do the chinese, arguably the smartest people on earth (The Bell Curve), still live in freaking mud huts?
I am missing something, here.
Dang. That sounds like a scene right of "The Good Earth!"
"But since 2000, the number of severely poor has grown "more than any other segment of the population," according to a recent study in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine."
When was Bush elected?
Su casa, mi casa.
People with no trackable income are hard to measure, what's new?
Extreme poverty means the batteries are dead.
We take up a collection from the liberals and give it to the poor, right?
What chance do you think this story would have getting published in 2009?
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