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Strategies & Market Trends : John Pitera's Market Laboratory -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: John Pitera who wrote (6715)	8/18/2002 6:50:40 PM
From: Yorikke	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 33421

Think you forgot the big <G> on the end of that last paragraph. There is nothing noble about finding one's self and family in a state of poverty. There is no state of grace that comes to one when you find you can not feed your children. When a child goes hungry it does nothing for his soul. Time may surge over the suffering and events, softening the ragged edges of shame and allowing some to claim that it was all a good thing, and that the humiliation did not stick in throat for decades; but it likely the ones who didn't suffer that make it a patriotic and noble event. Anyone who wants to discover this, to test the hypotheses that poverty builds character, need only walk out the door and join a volunteer agency and go work in one of the slums of the world. Live with people who have no choice in the matter and make an attempt to help them escape the pit of despair that they find themselves in. Its almost certain that after a few years you will come back furious and disgusted; and that all the understanding and respect you have for the people you worked with can not change the fact that poverty is a consumer of human lives and souls. Re-read the Grapes of Wrath and listen to Stienbeck rage as America sat back and let people suffer and die. He wrote of people who were desperate and stubborn in a time when compassion was at a character trait that was not abundantly present. The memory of these times has largely been lost to the conscience of our country. We fill the void with fiction and mythology.