Can any of you loons give an example of a country that doesn't have a robust government backed safety net in place and has a low poverty rate?
I mean, you're so sure that if we just remove the safety net for the poor that they will suddenly "become motivated" and climb out of poverty. So how about some examples of this in action.
Hi RDD BDB and RW:
No, it won't take overnight. It would take setting up campuses combining housing with job training and health services.
The Democrat district I live in set up and even passed federal legislation to create such a campus system
that would renovate public housing into sustainable job training and services to move families out of the poverty sector and become independent!
Sounds great right:
http://www.houstonprogressive.org
Where Congresswoman Lee signed the agreements to renovate this historic district as a campus with democratically elected tenants managing the community along with govt.
her signed agreement is linked here
Freedmen's Town Historic Churches and Vet Housing
I started volunteering around 1993-1995 thinking this was perfect to fulfill the inclusion and protection of minority interests that Democrats push as a party. And the head of the youth group in the neighborhood I also work with is even elected Chair of the Democrat Precinct.
But guess what?
Democrat administrations undercut the residents, evicted them and demolished the national historic site which was built as a military WWII complex, and destroyed these plans, starting in 1996, so they could subsequently gut historic gravesites and houses. This is a nationally recognized Freed Slave district and landmark to Civil Rights, the only one
like it in the country, in Congresswoman Lee's district. Even the Democrat Mayors oversaw gravesites desecrated and removed, and even demolished a historic Black church and then threatened to take the land away if they didn't pay the demolition lien.
So how much longer has it taken?
Instead of taking 5-10 years starting in 1996, it took 10 years, until 2006 to bring the leader of the group back into the neighborhood, who wrote the campus plan and signed it with SJL. During those 10 years of absence, most of the national district was demolished and blamed on the poor blacks, when those are the ones who DESIGNED and PASSED the plans to renovate public housing by creating sustainable education and training to end welfare!
It has taken me 15-20 years to try to get this scandal to the attention of anyone who will take it seriously as a wrong against taxpayers and demand restitution instead of "blaming the victims" as poor Blacks. The Democrats only care as long as they can control it politically; the Republicans won't touch it because it is the Democrats fault "for keeping blacks in poverty", and they also favor the developers destroying the national history in favor of corporate interests. The Black Republican leader in our neighborhood wrote up the grants for Vet Housing but couldn't get help from the VA, or HUD run by bureaucrats.
So I watched millions of dollars exchange hands while
nobody is protecting these community's rights and taxpayers money.
Or the plans long established for getting "po folk" out of poverty.
And both parties blame the other! They don't want to do the work to fix problems, they just want the money or the office to "blame the other" for why it isn't fixed!
The community that authored the plans are being punished for being poor and black. If the plans worked, that would prove they were right and wrongfully oppressed, so it is politically expedient to destroy the district to hide any remaining evidence that it could have been saved. So everyone can keep blaming the Republicans for being racist and the Democrats for exploiting poor blacks without helping them.
They are too busy competing to make each other wrong, instead of working to make things right. They had the blueprint all written out, but instead of investing in a solution as Republicans claim to support instead of govt, they gave all their money to campaign against each other for govt office. So they are both hypocrites.
And the only national historic district in America of churches, streets and houses built by Freed Slaves is destroyed at taxpayers expense because of kowtowing to corporate interests for political office.
It already takes years to train to get people out of poverty
But even trying to save these plans from being censored and demolished by Democrats
has taken 15-20 yrs (and that was just the time I got involved at the tail end of this fight).
