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Why are the poor, poor?
Artiste:
May I repeat one post:
A number of posts here have mentioned forms of involuntary labor as de facto slavery, but you don't have to find parallels -- chattel slavery is alive and well. Some of the worst examples are in Africa, with the worst and most brutal conditions being in Sudan and Mauritania.
Interestingly, trafficking in human beings has replaced the drug traffic as the most widespread and lucrative illicit business on the planet.
Artiste:
And thank you Marge_Innavera !
And now such slavery starting too secretly in the USA, Canada, and other so-called free countries ?
Au revoir,
hugs!
Luvlylittlewing:
--- Quote from: delalluvia on May 02, 2008, 08:24:48 am ---Lotta trouble with that article.
And this Yet, although work and marriage are reliable ladÂders out of poverty, the welfare system perversely remains hostile to both.
You do know that marriage has a failure rate of about 50%? So what if a poor person marries? There is a good chance they'll be divorced soon and right back where they started. So much for that "reliable ladder".
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A lot of women get pregnant not because of the good ole welfare benefits, but in hopes that the child's father will marry her. And even if he does, what if he is out of work? Where is the ladder out of poverty in these cases?
Luvlylittlewing:
--- Quote from: seriouscrayons on May 02, 2008, 04:50:24 pm ---
Now, the Iraq War is hardly the gold standard for success or cost-effectiveness, so in that sense it's an unappealing comparison. On the other hand, the War on Poverty undoubtedly hasn't killed as many people, hasn't caused as many people to hate us, and so far seems to have made more people better off.
Let's hope we're not having this same discussion about the effectiveness of the Iraq War in 40 years!
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Amen!
Artiste:
Wow, guess with Iraq and other such areas, we will be like in film for unknown years!
And poverty will increase for us all ?
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