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To: Mary Cluney who wrote (95)	9/13/2005 12:08:43 PM
From: Constant Reader	Respond to of 2253

I only hope the line is not drawn anywhere near as to how we airlift food and water to people stranded in a natural catastrophe because they didn't have the means, knowledge, or social skills to get out when they were told. Mary, that barn door is closed. True, the horse got out. The chances that it will happen again are probably infinitesimal. Local governments everywhere got the message: if you send people somewhere, make damn sure you have provisions for them when they get there. State governments everywhere are looking at the mistakes made and devising plans to avoid them. And the federal government will do the same.

To: Mary Cluney who wrote (95)	9/13/2005 12:34:47 PM
From: Rambi	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 2253

Since all of us are shaped by our life experiences, we can all bring different casseroles to the potluck supper here. What you see as limiting my perspective I see as affording me the opportunity to get an inside look at the functioning of a system and where it fails (how the trees in your forest aren't too healthy, to steal your metaphor and really make this paragraph a baffling buffet of literary insanity). If you can look at the poor of NOLA and say that our system is successful at changing lives for the better, I would be interested in how you come to that conclusion. And if you believe that more of the same will create change, that too, I am interested in hearing. I am not advocating the end of welfare, only wanting to offer some alternatives to a system that not only allows, but in many ways encourages, people to remain in it. Those for whom real change is too late, we will have to support because we created that dependency. And there will always be some we have to support because they are truly needy. But let's attack harder and deeper the true causes. And it's fine if you disagree or are appalled by my ideas. But you haven't offered me others, you've only told me that you think I have limited vision because I was a social worker. What is WRONG with offering boarding schools? With removing children from the environment? With disagreeing that a bigger welfare check will create change? Give me some ideas.