--- In [email protected], "shempmcgurk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In [email protected], "authfriend" <jstein@> > wrote: <snip> > > They need to become *developed* first, Shemp, > > before they can hope to bring their level of > > poverty up to our level of poverty. That they're > > not there yet doesn't mean we get to stop working > > to eliminate poverty > > The things you call "poverty" here, I would call something else, > not poverty.
That's a really dumb approach. When you say there's no poverty in the U.S., people just stop listening because it's so absurd. Nobody's interested in a discussion of your peculiar definition of the word "poverty." There's poverty, and there's worse poverty, and it's meaningless to say only worse poverty should be called poverty. Changing the definition of poverty doesn't somehow eliminate poverty. It's also silly to say that third-world nations should strive to emulate the U.S. and eliminate poverty. Poverty is a *consequence* of being a third world nation, not a cause. They have to rise out of third- world status until they can hope to emulate the U.S. in just about anything. To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
