--- In [email protected], "authfriend" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In [email protected], "shempmcgurk" <shempmcgurk@> > 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.
Well, we're not all perfect genuises, like you. > When you say there's > no poverty in the U.S., people just stop listening > because it's so absurd. What's absurd is for people to read the article that I originally posted and then think that we have anything REMOTELY like that here. And if people think it's absurd that's there problem. There IS no poverty in the U.S. and it's an insult to those in the third world who DO actually experience poverty to say that we have it here. We don't. > Nobody's interested in a > discussion of your peculiar definition of the word > "poverty." Then they don't have to listen. > There's poverty, and there's worse poverty, That's funny because I never see that distinction made when "povety" in America is discussed. Have you? > and it's meaningless to say only worse poverty should > be called poverty. Disagree. "Worse poverty" is the only thing that should be called poverty. And it's high time we announce to the world we have eliminated "worse poverty". > Changing the definition of poverty > doesn't somehow eliminate poverty. Quite true, but informing people that we have solved it WILl help to eliminate it in other places. > > 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. > Well, you'll just have to ignore silly people like me. 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/
