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I would trace it back even farther, to the culture of poverty. Perhaps she didn't know any better or have any better role models.
posted by
keri5707
on September 16, 2005 at 9:21 AM
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I hear you..
We used to teach that the wages of sin are death...talk about practical demonstration!!!!!! Nice movie precept. One night's "hookup" kills you thirty-four years later!
One New Orleans planner proposes razing the poorer sections and rebuilding there (say what?!) with middle to upper middle class housing; the folks flooded out will return to them, get training, and be able to afford them. (What elitist and maybe racial bullshit!). Another proposes rebuilding small cheap housing, a new ghetto.
Look at all tourist towns, or countries. Wealth is concentrated, often out of the area, and many locals work seasonally and are without benefits, i.e., "poor".
posted by
majroj
on September 15, 2005 at 5:06 PM
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Very good post and it is interesting what you said, this past Sunday
George Will was on ABC TV This Week and said
Three Ways to cure poverty;
1-Graduate high school
2-Don’t have a child until you are married.
3-Don’t get married until you’re twenty.
posted by
scoop
on September 15, 2005 at 11:09 AM
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