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

To: bela_ghoulashi who wrote (4733)	2/4/2001 8:48:56 AM
From: epicure	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

We have thrown table scraps at them, compared to what we have. What we really need to do, is send money and expertise and infrastructure TOGETHER. This has never been done. It would be more expensive than what we do now, but it would be cheaper in the long run and it would be more humane. It takes money to change people's lives. Money intelligently spent- which is why you need expertise. And it doesn't have anything to do with what they want. We need to spend more because we owe it to our fellow citizens. They deserve it. They not only need it, we owe it to them, imo, for allowing huge sinkholes of poverty to develop because we want to contain it, and keep the contagion away from ourselves. Poverty, to a great extent is like disease, you CAN fight it. You need to bring the same resources to bear- you need something for the critical patient, you need something for the chronic patient, and you need to begin with the children so they do not become ill in the first place. Look at poverty as a disease, and you see treatable patients. Or at least that is what I see. We just haven't tried to find a cure. We've only tried to keep the disease away from ourselves.