> gMoney wrote: > Then for God's sake, Dana, enlighten us......I may not agree with all of > Gruss' viewpoints,
Realizing I've been a bit obtuse I'll try to restate: As Dana points out, poverty is a very complex issue. The is, therefore, to try to break it down to actionable segments and then apply policy to each segment. I'm saying that one segment of the problem is choice-based. That is, if someone had the education and self-esteem to figure out the best path up, they could - simply by making the choice to do so. I'm fully admitting that getting someone the conceptual tools to make the choice could take years. But I'm also saying that, for that segment of the problem, the only barrier is choice - maybe difficult to make choice - but choice. Therefore the solution to that segment is some form of education and counseling that gets a person from "I'm worth sh1t and I deserve this life" to "I can do better!". The other segments I'm not addressing because my contention is that the "education segment" or the "choice segment" is 80% of the problem. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| CF 8 â Scorpio beta now available, easily build great internet experiences â Try it now on Labs http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/entitlement/index.cfm?e=labs_adobecf8_beta Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:237189 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
