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To: bentway who wrote (175156)1/5/2009 3:31:07 PM
From: GraceZRead Replies (1) of 306849
 
Did this strike a chord with you Grace?

Why should it? Because I grew up poor and had to suffer from the attitudes of people who grew up rich and thought that I should be happy and grateful for state charity or because as an adult I have to suffer the attitudes of do gooders who continually discount my success by telling me that escaping from poverty was somehow easier for someone like me?

I can tell you from personal experience both attitudes come from the same place and that is that poor people are somehow inferior and incapable of taking care of themselves.

People are capable of doing great things if they aren't constantly subjected to their own low expectations for themselves, something the do gooders are determined to perpetuate.

What was telling about the last evacuation in NO was that the various city, state and federal agencies were better prepared but the people who needed those facilities were just as ill prepared... but there were fewer of them because most hadn't returned.
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