Not only that, they gave her money for saving her own.  What's the 
difference between this and giving it away for food?  Here's another 
question for you:  is this woman off welfare?  Would have she been able to 
save any money at all if she didn't have welfare?

- Matt


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dana" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "CF-Community" <[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, January 12, 2006 8:10 PM
Subject: Re: Score 1 For Capitalism, Empowerment


>a thousand bucks didn't lift this woman out of poverty, Gruss :) This
> program did however spend several million in grant money I am sure.
>
> On 1/12/06, Gruss Gott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> > Dana  wrote:
>> > omg how much of this poor woman's time did they take up with these
>> > classes :) And she got a thousand bucks out of it. Wow.
>> >
>>
>> But it's great empirical evidence of the point I've been making.  You
>> don't fix poverty through give aways like minimum wage or welfare -
>> all that does is tell people they don't have to compete or they don't
>> have to work.
>>
>> Instead you show them the path to success and you reward them for
>> taking it.  It work fix it all but it'll definitely pass the 80-20
>> rule.
>>
>>
>
> 

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