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  Interesting facts. I too, was not making a personal attack. What you seem to be implying, is that, poverty will always cycle, nurses are haters of the poor, and we are arguing. I actually think we are agreeing. The current system bites. We need to help the working poor as well as the poor who are unable to work.

  Companies who collect data can skew it to reveal whatever information they want it to reveal. Solutions are what is needed. Solutions might start with free dental care for the working poor and the self employed, bring the troops home and have them find and destroy meth labs, and build industry in poor areas.

  Industries like making lumber from recycled plastic milk jugs, making jars from recycled glass, making photovoltaic charging stations for the EV's that are coming. Can't we take all that tobacco and make ethanol or something?

  I am not aiming my comments at you. Please don't take this as argument. I don't hate the poor, or people who aren't of my color or religion. I am angry at four adults smoking cigerettes in a small house with two little kids despite repeated education as to the harm caused.

  You are right though, nothing is being solved here. I'll move on.

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  Commented on December 12, 2007 by - rngulf

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  I don't think all the "educated more/fortunate" have a focus on material stuff. Pulling myself out of poverty, with latch key kids and fear and pancakes for dinner. I have the good fortune of an unbiased view of poverty. It took longer than it should have in such a rich and powerful country as this. I wasn't able to qualify for state aid because I worked two jobs. I guess I should have quit and gone on state aid so I could be home with my kids. (My kids are stable adults now, despite my quest for material comforts) But, would I have become complacent and used to checks in the mail without work. Two nurses I graduated with were not excited about graduation because "now I have to go to work".

  I truly believe in equal education, equal healthcare and rewarding people who figure a way to make their own way. Some people just aren't smart, but they become successful anyway through perseverence and love and not feeding off of society. Others may be educated or not, but they drain society, they drain the system.

  Whatever system we come up with next, it needs to stop rewarding corruption and drains

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  Commented on December 11, 2007 by - rngulf

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  I work in a tiny obscure Emergency Room in rural AR. Poverty wanders through our doors daily. I have become cynical and skeptical. I don't see the poor trying to get themselves out. They like it right where they are. figuring ways to cop some drugs from the ER, get disibility, smoke cigerettes and have more kids.

  Two adorable little boys with chronic lung diseases and coughs and head colds constantly coming to our ER with fevers. Mom is pregnant. I have repeatedly educated these young parents that they and the grandparents need to stop smoking in the house. That four smoking adults in one small house is causing the boys to be sick all the time. They look at me and smile. They won't change.

  What is your solution to this. Dripping water or buy them an ox. Or slap the hell out of them, which is what I want to do. This is American poverty. What should we do?

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  Commented on December 11, 2007 by - rngulf