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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: TimF who wrote (4694)	2/3/2001 11:29:51 PM
From: epicure	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 82486

That is not true. They cannot simply help themselves, that is part of the myth that keeps great and compassionate America from coming to their aid. They did not make the jobs disappear from their communities. They did not draw the city lines so that businesses could get out of paying taxes to help support their economies. They did not set up a system where they act as a distribution center for the vices wealthy citizens of outlying areas enjoy- providing prostitutes, and drugs. It is not enough to save a few people from the inner city and condemn the rest for not being plucky enough to save themselves. Some inner city hospitals run out of sutures, and drugs. Some inner city schools do not have toilet paper, or doors to toilet stalls, or seats to toilets, or books. Many children in the inner city have learning problems that cannot possibly be addressed because the districts have no money. How can they get any money? The property, even though taxed higher than in affluent areas, yields far too little to pay for good schools, or even mediocre schools. Money is the solution to most problems. And they do not have money. Anyone who tells you money is not the answer is lying. If money wasn't so important to people, the rich would be more willing to give it away to help the poor. If money were not so important industries would not redraw city lines to escape from being taxed by poor communities. What people would like to think, is that money is not important to the poor. But in reality, there is nowhere money could be better spent, than to try to bring equity and hope to our inner cities. We have caused these places to exist. We have built projects to warehouse the poor, and we have helped to concentrate them- because we do not want them in OUR neighborhood.