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To: Traveler59

From the article; “...most of the behavioural traits that led to poverty were inherited. In short, that the poor were genetically inferior to the educated middle class.

Such B.S.!

Abe Lincoln was dirt poor. He went through tragedies and came out on top. This points out their dismal view of life. Where you START out in life, has little to do with where you END up. It is up to YOU, the individual, to make the difference.


7 posted on 11/27/2009 7:00:47 AM PST by nmh (Intelligent people recognize Intelligent Design (God).)
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To: nmh

Genetically inferior? That’s so nutty. Genetically most people in the UK are all the same. Haplogroup R1a, I believe.

Fabians are scary, horrible people.


8 posted on 11/27/2009 7:11:57 AM PST by squarebarb
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To: nmh
I wonder sometimes if our concept of poverty is not flawed.

I have known families who had very little money living clean and respectable lives and I have known families who live in absolute squalor.

I have known families who with very little money, labor to keep what they do have in good order

I have known families with little resources running out to purchase things I can't even afford,

I have seen the poor rent homes in modest middle-class neighborhoods and trash the whole street with their activities.

I have seen the children of the poor become so hostile to poverty that they excel in work and school simply to never have to go back to that which they came.

I have seen the children of the poor who are comfortable with their situation. To them it's normal.

No. There is some poverty that can be explained by negative circumstances and there is some poverty that has a mental/emotional/cultural aspect that doom it's children.

We all have examples of this in our lives.

18 posted on 11/27/2009 9:11:54 AM PST by M.K. Borders (All I require of my government is the liberty my Grandfathers were born to.)
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