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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: tejek who wrote (310588)11/13/2006 3:16:40 PM
From: bentway  Read Replies (1) of 1576772
 
"There is a segment of poor America that has become institutionalized. "

In my early twenties, I got a contract to work with the Austin Housing Authority for a year, helping them catch up on the deferred maintenance on the public housing they administered. They were a year behind schedule.

I met poor people, sometimes three generations of them, who lived in public housing. Their children were taught life stategies that included getting public housing, the right number of kids to have to maximize welfare and how it was better NOT to have the man living with them to make it easier to get. I heard all this discussed while doing repairs on the public housing units.

I hope this is over now. It didn't work, and anyone who spent any time in those places would realize that it would NEVER work.
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