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To: Augustus Gloop who wrote (348)7/8/2001 9:15:32 AM
From: epicure  Read Replies (1) of 1857
 
You know it hasn't actually been proven that throwing money at social problems doesn't solve them. Most of us want the money we have, why? It is useful. Money is useful because it does solve problems. Money thrown at head start, for example, DOES solve problems. Money thrown at the school lunch and breakfast programs DO solve problems. The problem has been in the past that money is not thoughtfully thrown at problems.

It is very ironic to me that people try to argue money isn't the answer to "social problems", read...the poor. Money is only the answer for the affluent? Is it some sort of magic commodity that doesn't work for the poor? If the program is poorly designed money won't save it- but in a well designed program money is ALWAYS the answer, and it does solve issues. We have a program for reading specialists in California- it is mandated that children who are reading below grade level get a reading specialists help- but the legislature "forgot" to fund the program. Guess what? No money, no reading specialists. So we test children, find they are below grade level, and can't refer them because there are no specialists because there is no money allocated to the schools to hire them. OOOPS- just one more "issue" money can solve.

If you qualified your answer and said poorly designed programs don't work even with more money- I would agree with you. But the answer is better designed programs. Because well designed social programs do save lives, in many ways.
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