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ananda

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1. Your niece needs to see the poverty...

Reply to nadinbrzezinski (Original post)

Sun Mar 11, 2012, 07:13 AM

Mar 2012

... and meet poor people in person.

Our mother used to take us into the homes of the poor and meet the people. It taught us about poverty that can be learned no other way.

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Poverty and propaganda [View all] nadinbrzezinski Mar 2012 OP

Your niece needs to see the poverty... ananda Mar 2012 #1

The American myth is fully ingrained. nadinbrzezinski Mar 2012 #3

America's poor don't matter. Zalatix Mar 2012 #2

It's not that, we go out of our way to make them nadinbrzezinski Mar 2012 #4

Many politicians, in fact, talk about poverty at great length with no ill effects on their careers. Brickbat Mar 2012 #5

Nadin, what kind of social programs do the poor of Mexico have access to? Things like food stamps, jwirr Mar 2012 #6

My question is, why did the poor rarely ever rebel? Zalatix Mar 2012 #8

Yes, many did die because of a combination of harsh treatment and the tropical heat/disease. As to jwirr Mar 2012 #11

I guess the Bolshevik Revolution was an anomaly in history Zalatix Mar 2012 #13

Not totally, the French Revolution was pretty much the poor against the rich also. jwirr Mar 2012 #14

Right now they cover them with the segura popular nadinbrzezinski Mar 2012 #9

That is good that they at least have something in place. Their population alone would make it hard jwirr Mar 2012 #12

UNICEF, Safe Drinking Water: joshcryer Mar 2012 #7

What I am saying is something else nadinbrzezinski Mar 2012 #10