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To: tejek who wrote (323949)	1/31/2007 3:27:48 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1577951

So all conservative and/or libertarian claims about the ability of American to succeed should be dismissed because Bush and/or someone in his cabinet said that Iraqis would greet Americans with open arms? What a nonsensical argument. And even if American mostly couldn't succeed that would only mean that conservatives' opinions where factually wrong (fortunately they are not) not that they are uncaring. Case in point.....when Gulf residents where struggling in the aftermath of Katrina where was America's #1 compassionate conservative? Conservatives where very compassionate in response to Katrina (and to other natural disasters) and contributed enormous amounts of money and effort to help alleviate the problems. And that's because statistics show that people born in poverty tend to die in poverty. People born in the bottom 20% often don't die in the bottom 20%. If your considering some other group as "in poverty", then as long as your apply it the same way for both births and deaths then for that definition its also likely that people who are born in poverty often don't die in poverty. And that's just considering relative poverty. In terms of absolute wealth even the poor of each generation tend to be wealthier then previous generations, even with new immigrants moving in to the bottom rungs of the economy. If you only consider the people who where already here then the effect is even stronger. And once again even if this wasn't true it would not be evidence for the assertion that conservatives or libertarians are uncaring, or "don't care about the poor", or "don't want the poor to succeed", or "don't want the poor to have a good life".