>So if poor people have the wrong priorities, what good will better skills do >them? How would they even get the skills without having the desire to learn >them?
It's not a lack of desire to learn them, that's where the misconception comes in. It's simply the culture of poverty. Is it difficult to change it? Absolutely. That's the biggest difference between people that have just fallen on hard times due to losing a job, losing their home, etc. and people that come from generations of poverty. But the *only* way to truly change it is to give them the education, give them the training, low-cost housing, decent paid low-skill jobs, health insurance, etc. Or there's really no chance whatsoever that they can break out of the cycle. And that's why we are seeing poverty on the rise. It's not that we aren't throwing money at the problem...it's that we are not throwing it into the things that can truly make a permanent change in people's lives, and merely look for a quick fix that does little good. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;203748912;27390454;j Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:266164 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
