[Vision2020] The poor

[keely emerinemix]

Could it be that what perpetuates poverty is not "provisions made for the 
poor," but provisions made for the poor WITHOUT a corresponding change in 
the social/political constructs that oppressed them in the first place?

Combating poverty is always a one-two punch:  give 'til it hurts the giver, 
and dismantle the system that hurts the recipient.  It's great to give a man 
a fish and better to teach him to fish, but if he's kept from the river he's 
going to stay poor.

keely


From: "Kai Eiselein" <fotopro63 at hotmail.com>
To: vision2020 at moscow.com
Subject: [Vision2020] The poor
Date: Sun, 19 Mar 2006 18:34:08 +0000

Found as a footnote in the Houston Law Review 7/14/2003

Quigley, Colonial America, supra note 15, at 55 n.144 (quotation marks 
omitted)
(quoting Howell V. Williams, Benjamin Franklin and the Poor Laws, 18 SOC. 
SERV. REV.
77, 78 (1944)); see also NASH, supra note 89, at 328 (“[T]he more public 
provisions were
made for the poor, the less they provided for themselves, and of course 
became poorer.”
(quoting Benjamin Franklin)).


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