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To: Constant Reader who wrote (103)	9/14/2005 9:56:41 AM
From: Mary Cluney	Respond to of 2253

It sounds like you are making an excuse for the status quo and I do wonder about that. I can hear the sounds of that music let the bad times rock and roll doobie, doobie, dooo But more seriously, fighting poverty on a national level is very difficult. There are too many competing points of view. The views probably range from "let them continue to eat cake, I'm not sharing any of my hard earned tax dollars on some no good welfare cheat" to where there are advocates that demand we give everything to everyone - for free - without having to work for it. For reason people however, the solutions have to come from somewhere in between these two polar opposite views. A certain prcentage of national wealth has to be allocated to invest in fighting poverty so that there is a return on that investment. The actual plan does not need rocket scientists to create. The reason why we are not going to come up with any viable solutions is because there is just too many diametrically opposing passions (passions - not reasoning) that go into this kind of discussion.