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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]50% FARMS...  A naive person might ask, "How is it that a city with so many high-income, high powered opportunities, where the brightest and most talented people from all over the country, and for that matter come from all over the world to work, has so many low-income families?"

I'll tell the truth that nobody wants to hear - it's the co-dependent clinging.  Low-income residents stay because of the overly generous social safety net to keep them here, and DC politicians cling to that infrastructure and keep it in place because they know they can control and manipulate those votes.

Everyone knows it, but nobody wants to admit it.[/quote]

This is such a ridiculous myth that people who haven't lived in poverty love to believe. How much do you know about the safety net? Most people who throw this tired argument out have little knowledge of how the safety net actually works, and couldnt explain the difference between TANF and SNAP if they needed to actually stand behind the claim with a well thought out argument. What do you want people to do? Move to a state that provides fewer benefits so that they are even further in poverty, but pehaps they can be homeless, too, and with even less of a chance of escaping poverty.

You try living in poverty for a year and then decide if that's the luxurious lifestyle keeping people in DC.[/quote]

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