Mom’s apple pie fuels cyclists on last leg of Cycling for Change
By Kevin Kelly
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“Poverty hasn’t gotten any better,” he said. “It will take a cooperative effort of government, church and business. If we all work together, we can solve this problem. But if we keep fighting, it will continue.”
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Didn’t the New Testament say that the poor we will always have with us?
And, “poverty” by what measure?
Argh! Seems like we have a fundamental failure of paradigms and memes.
Paradigm in what we see as poverty. If I have food to eat and a roof over my head, am I poor? If I have “stuff”, am I poor? If I have “habits”, am I poor? I refer back to that fellow in Africa waiting on line to get into the USA, who when asked why, answered “You have poor people who are fat”.
Meme failure is that “poverty” is something that can be “cured”. And certainly, anything that depends upon Gooferment is not going to work.
It would seem that people are poor based on the choices that they make. We need to figure out how to help them learn to make better choices. What we have is a system that enslaves them in poverty. We have multigenerational families who are farming the welfare system. And the politicians and bureaucrats like that just fine. Instant voting block.
Some times the way out is tough love?
End the phony fiat money and the inflation that accompanies it. Privatize Social Security so that the poor can pass on their hard work. End the dole. End the minimum wage. End Gooferment Skrules. End the drug war. End all the wars not specifically declared by Congress and accompanied with a surtax to pay for it.
Then maybe you can redefine poverty.
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