--- In [email protected], new.morning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] > > For example, -- in broad stokes -- shemp is referring ot poverty as > the lack of basic food, water, shelter, medicine. Really bone-crushing > stuff. Others are talking about an arbitrary income line used in the > US to denote qualification for various social programs. These two > definitions of the term ARE widely different. If both parties simply > acknowledged that and then spent their energy thinking about how to > reduce both types of "poverty", what progress might be made!. Far more > than mutal putdowns on how stupid the other party is. >
Actia;;u. Shemp appears to be using pverty to refer to being in immediate danger of starving to death. There are plenty of people in the USA who lack basic food, water, shelter and medicine-- sometimes one or more of the above at the same time--somtimes all of the above. 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/
