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Playing With Words

One for All Wrote: Jun 06, 2012 4:47 PM
If the actions have worked to lift these people up from poverty conditions then they are no longer poor, which is what Mr Sowell is trying to get across to you.
b_niles57 Wrote: Jun 06, 2012 9:19 PM
So the only way to define poverty is if you are starving, naked, living 5 to a room while baking in the summer, freezing in the winter, with no electricity and sewage everywhere? If you don't meet these requirements as stated by Mr. Sowell you aren't really poor? Just because we have progressed from caveman status doesn't mean people aren't still poor!
Would anyone work to support themselves or their families -- and then turn over a chunk of that hard-earned money to somebody else, just because of the words used by that somebody else?

A few people may be taken in by the words of con men, here and there, but the larger tragedy is that millions more are taken in by the words of politicians, the top-of-the-line con men.

How do politicians con people out of their money? One example can be found in a recent article titled "The Autism-Welfare Nexus" by Paul Sperry in "Investor's Business Daily."

Genuine autism is a truly tragic...

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