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To: Karen Lawrence who wrote (2053)	11/3/2002 11:40:39 PM
From: William B. Kohn	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 6901

Karen, It is nice that you're caring. I am sad every time I pass a homeless person in Chicago, sad, but not because they're homeless, but because they represent lost potential. It is not the job of every working person in the US to take care of the people who don't work. Some of the tragic statistics you report, are probably due at least in part to illegal immigration. People who've chosen involvement with drugs also make up a decent percentage of those numbers. People who've chosen to drop out of school for hundreds of reasons make up part of the pool you are describing. Now some of those people are seriously sick and i would agree that as a society we need to find more effective solutions for handling those people, compassionately yet economically, but a handout will not help and many of the people you are talking about have refused handUps before. Undocumented residents, my foot, they shouldn't be here and I, for one, don't want to waste money on them. Sorry, no compassion for that group. I am, however, very concerned about the poor conditions that exist for Native American Indians, who deserve a better fate than we've given them. In the meantime... doesn't tie these two items together. Crooks are crooks, in the 80's we heard plenty about fraud on poverty programs as well. Or perhaps you're suggesting that the way to solve the ills you describe is to force the medico's into poverty, make them homeless, while giving those undocumented residents their places on hospital staff's. bill@givingitawayisnttherightanswereither.com PS. If i'm struggling for food, maybe i would set my priorities straight and give up the telephone. What's the phone bill $40. a month. That can be a week's worth of groceries for a family if you're frugal.

To: Karen Lawrence who wrote (2053)	11/4/2002 11:23:56 AM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 6901

The best way to end poverty in America is for women to be more selective about the men they have sex with, and only have children after they are married to a decent man who will work to support the family while the children are young. I put the blame on men, too. There are too many worthless men who just want to screw around, but they couldn't do it without the cooperation of the women. There are a lot of reasons for poverty, but this one is preventable. The government makes a big effort to warn that cigarettes cause lung cancer and that alcohol causes fetal alcohol syndrome, but where is the effort to stop out-of-wedlock pregnancy?