Comment from THHiggie
September 17, 2008, 6:31 am

Some tips for avoiding poverty: do not have children while still in high school; do not drop out of school; do not do drugs; do not waste money on cigarettes, lottery tickets, beer, big screen TV’s etc.; obey laws; work hard.

Comment from mae
September 17, 2008, 8:44 am

AMEN!!! Another tip….do not continue to have children after the first one you can’t afford because the father is not around or you don’t have a job.

Comment from madb
September 17, 2008, 9:50 am

hey,thhiggie and mae,THE ONLY WAY TO BEAT POVERTY. GO TO COLLEGE.MAY HELP YOU TOO!!!!!!!!!!

Comment from madb
September 17, 2008, 9:58 am

YOU BOTH NEED TO ‘GET A LIFE” OPINIONS ARE LIKE …… …….. ,EVERYBODY HAS ONE.WHY DON”T YOU HELP THE ‘WAR ON POVERTY”????????

Comment from mae
September 17, 2008, 11:00 am

I have a college degree and own a house, so I’m not the one you need to give that advice to. I’ve seen plenty of YOUR a**hole opinions on here, so don’t think you are above anyone. Do other peole pepole call you nasty names on this site when they disagree with you? And….enlighten us on your volunteer work for the needy. If you participate in those endeavors, I commend you ahead of time before you get shitty with me on that too.

Comment from mae
September 17, 2008, 11:20 am

It looks as though my comment may not get published because I spelled out the word “s-i-ty”. Here is a recap….

Madb- I have a college degree and own a home, so you don’t need to give me that advice. I’ve seen plenty of YOUR ***hole opinions on this site, along with your YELLING CAPS and your standard “shut the **** up” reply. Also you hav 8 yr-old debates with those you don’t agree. If you went to college, it didn’t do you any good. Maybe some etiquette lessons or just take your own advice.

Comment from Jack Miller
September 17, 2008, 3:29 pm

MAE - Every forum has at least one low IQ braggart and Madb is ours. He writes like a fourth grader and never adds anything of substance to an article or discussion. Don’t feed the trolls or the idiots.

This so called poverty symposium is another futile Liberal feel good misadventure. How many times have we read about closing this gap or that one where it concerns blacks? They are behind every other race, by a large margin, in education and standard of living. Every city, town, village and damn near every school has wrung their hands in angst over the ‘education gap’. Huge national meetings are held to try and fix this unrepairable issue. The usual solution is to dumb down the curriculum so they can do the work and this proved ineffective unless you want to count success as hurting other children who do want to learn. Too many schools are adopting outcome based education (OBE) because they believe this will finally give the majority of blacks success in the classroom. OBE is a dumbed-down hopeless program that stifles individual potential for excellence and achievement by holding the entire class to the level of learning attainable by every child. This means at the level of the slowest students.

With education comes success and your way out of poverty. There never has been a ‘war on poverty’. Maybe a joke on poverty, yes? How many billions have been wastefully thrown at the problem and it gets worse? The Liberals told blacks they are not good enough to qualify for a job on their own so gave them affirmative action. They told blacks they are not good enough to get into college so they had race based admissions created. Liberals said they don’t have to work because they’ll give them monthly checks and food stamps. They told blacks they don’t have to worry about clothes, cars or anything else, because they’ll be given vouchers for these things. YOUR WORKING taxes being taken for this. Blacks have been conditioned to expect society to pay their way, to carry the burden and hold their hands. It was taught to them and taught well.

There are some school districts paying black students to get good grades on exams or to simply stay in school. Again, Liberals are teaching them they are not good enough to do anything on their own without being given something.

Comment from madb
September 17, 2008, 6:08 pm

jack miller,nice novel,TELLING US ABOUT ”COMMON KNOWLEDGE” PROBLEMS, WISH I HAD THE TIME TO WRITE ONE ALSO. BEING A LANDLORD whites GET THE SAME VOUCHERS, WITH 52 RENTALS,I HAVE A MILLION STORIES.AS FAR AS I.Q. I PAID TAXES ON $$$,000 IN 2007!!!!!

Comment from madb
September 17, 2008, 6:21 pm

mae,FEED ME,FEED ME, FORGET WHAT jack miller told you.what a MORON!!!!!!!!!!!!!! DID I SPELL miller CORRECTLY??

Comment from Dan S.
September 17, 2008, 6:59 pm

Sorry, but the war is over, and this circle jerk of a symposium, will do nothing other that work out the terms of surrender.

There was a very good show on PBS a couple nights ago, highlighting the educational system in the U.S.

We lost that war too.

Even our best schools don’t hold a candle to average schools in other countries.

Seems like the gist of the program was to start teaching your children how to speak Chinese NOW!

Comment from AllKnowing
September 17, 2008, 9:12 pm

How come it seems that those of you who have college educations look down on those less fortunate? I agree that there are people that abuse the system and generally do not want to work. But what about the ones that don’t? What about the ones that lost their jobs and cannot get another due to experience and resumes? Have you people even looked in the classifieds? Most of the jobs in there require experience and resumes. Please bring your noses down some and actually help those less fortunate than yourself!

Comment from mh1492
September 18, 2008, 7:56 am

That’s exactly why they try to kill these programs and mock those who try to help others. Look at what’s happening in the housing markets. The CONSERVATIVES who are running things in the Republican party (I’m not calling them Republicans) want more money available for them to steal. If it goes to making war they can steal it that way, if they can loosen all the regulations governing business it can be stolen that way. If it goes to help poor and middle class families, ordinary people, it’s gone. It’s not sitting there anymore waiting to be scooped up.

They’ll drag out every viscous lie about “welfare mothers driving Cadillacs” to discredit programs such as these and discourage social investment in these areas.

They always say these programs don’t work, see that proves that you can spend your way out of these problems. Well we have two wars (occupations?) going on right now that are not going so well, yet I hear no talking pulling funding from the military.

Why? Because its common sense, you have a problem you have to fix, you spend what it takes to fix it.

The reason that they want to jerk funding from the schools and social programs is that they don’t want to fix these problems. They don’t care. They have their private schools and gated communities. As far as the rest of us are concerned we can all go to hell. They might throw an extra buck in the collection plate on Sunday just to make themselves feel better (that is if they aren’t golfing at their private club).

But let people try to regulate business (and not bail out their companies when they’ve run them into the ground) or cut some hundred billion dollar weapon system scam and they scream bloody murder.

Personally I’d rather have a million “welfare mothers driving Cadillacs” then what we have now, it would be far, far less expensive and at least the money would be spread out and used in our communities not concentrated in elite communities on the east coast and North Carolina.