RE: [MLUG - DISCUSSION] speaking of apocalyptic horsemen...

["Matthew Ross" <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

We're not saying we're devoid of the problem, we're saying the money that should go into educating the poor is going into breeding more poor. We should either not subsidise breeding, or, preferably, subsidise beneficial breeding. Subsidising negative breeding is an anti-survival policy. All nations fall at some point, I think this is how america will. We have too much money and too many greedy smart people to fall the way we topled other nations. :-)

> > A "war on poverty"?  How old are you?  We've had that too.  
> > It was Lyndon Johnson's term: 
> 
> Ah, so you  don't need to wage war on poverty in the US? Of course,
> central to the War on Poverty waged by Johnston was education. To see
> how dramatic the effect of that war was - and the subsequent 
> rise since
> the war was abandoned - take a look at
> http://www.umsl.edu/services/govdocs/erp/1997/chart5-a.gif
> 
> Taken from  "Child Well-Being, Child Poverty and Child Policy 
> in Modern
> Nations", co-authored by Timothy Smeeding, a professor of 
> public policy
> at Syracuse University, N.Y., and sociologist Koen Vleminckx, of the
> University of Leuven in Luxembourg:
> 
> The percentage of American children living in poverty is 20.3% 
> 
> Other nations:
> Sweden, 2.4
> Slovak Republic, 3.2
> Finland, 3.2
> Czech Republic, 3.4
> Norway, 3.9
> Luxembourg, 4.3
> Belgium, 5.1
> Austria, 5.3
> France, 5.6
> Switzerland, 6.4
> Netherlands, 7.0
> Germany, 8.7
> Hungary, 10.1
> Ireland, 12.4
> Spain, 12.4
> Poland, 12.7
> Canada, 14.7
> United Kingdom, 16.2
> Italy, 19.5%
> 
> Seems there are two alternative strategies - one to educate people out
> of poverty and the other to breed them out. Given the list 
> above points
> to countries that have chosen the educate route, I'd dare to 
> suggest it
> might be more successful.
> 
> Russell.
> 
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