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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]
Don't give me that crap.  I grew up poor.  GENUINELY poor.  Spent a lot of time on little but beans and rice, but at least my mom made sure I had something to eat.  Not "poor" as in showing up for FARMS meals wearing $200 sneakers, licensed NBA and NFL gear and festooned with The North Face as they do around DC.  Don't get me wrong, I'm sure there are some genuinely poor in DC, but there are also a whole lot of people with screwed up priorities in DC, not to mention a whole lot of outright scam artists who should be perfectly capable of fending for themselves and their families instead of trying to get everything for free from everyone else.[/quote]

Thank you! [/quote]

Since you're apparently a different poster but you agree, feel free to also describe what the answer is then to the kids whose parents are truly not able to do it or not there to do it.  You like what she said, so how do those kids eat, or they don't?[/quote]

I think the whole system needs to be rethought from the ground up, and we need to do a better job in society in terms of values, priorities and social mores.  Growing up we managed to get by on very little, but we learned that money goes a lot farther when you make good choices, and we learned that hard work pays off.  Ending poverty is something the poor need to be doing for themselves, as we did for ourselves.  The value of work, education, self-sufficiency needs to be more deeply culturally ingrained.  Currently the system is set up basically to enable it rather than fix it - we teach kids external dependency from a very early age right up to adulthood - mom doesn't need to provide breakfast or lunch, FARMS provides it.  Mom doesn't need to provide school supplies, those come from others.  You don't actually have to do your school work, the school will just socially promote you - and so on.  You are taught from K-12 that the system will take care of you, you have zero incentive to ever develop a work ethic or for that matter even conceive of doing anything for yourself.  The system is an enabler.  The way it's set up, it only perpetuates and propagates poverty from generation to generation.  There is nothing to ever break the cycle.  Unless you are fine with continuing poverty from generation to generation, and continuing on with all of these things as the status quo, the system needs to fundamentally and radically change.[/quote]

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