I was so impressed by this forums thoughts on the AIDs pandemic (a really big epidemic) that I wondered if you could also help "keep the promise". By turning your attention to poverty. How do we solve this issue on both local and global scales?
Gender: Male Location: Southern Oregon,
Looking at you.
The problem with giving money to the poor is that those who give the money feel like they should have some say in how the money is spent. That means that the poor loose their rights to spend the money as they see fit.
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Gender: Male Location: Southern Oregon,
Looking at you.
True, but how do you do that?
My brother, for most of his life was homeless. He told me, shortly before he died of cancer, what it was like to be homeless. One thing he told me that I was surprised to hear, was that food banks and housing for the homeless where dangerous places that any smart homeless person would stay away from. It seems that they are filled with thugs that will take everything you have and beat you up.
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Gender: Male Location: USA, Oklahoma. Pewpy balls.
Care to expand a little bit on your "poverty is useful" thought? I am interested. (I have an idea of what you mean but I still want to "hear" your idea.)
Well, I didn't mean to be put on the spot, I just wanted to say something offensive.
If I'd have to think about it I would assume that poverty makes the labor cheaper and increases trade by that. So we get cheaper goods...which is good. To me.
__________________ "The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity; and it was not meant that we should voyage far." -CoC
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Aug 31st, 2007 06:39 PM
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