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merrily

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15. A plentitude of decent-paying jobs helps a lot.

Reply to hughee99 (Reply #12)

Fri Jun 6, 2014, 11:02 AM

Jun 2014

You know, the kind of salary and benefits where you don't have to apply for food stamps or Medicaid?

So does assistance for those who are unable to work.

So does on the job training for people who can work but need skills.

Unlike vast wealth, most of the money from the sources described above goes right back into the general economy.

Those things truly lift all boats, not making very rich people even richer.

It's really not as mysterious or impossible as some like us to believe.

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Robert Reich: THE THREE BIGGEST RIGHT-WING LIES ABOUT POVERTY: [View all] kpete Jun 2014 OP

Those are all excellent. nt BootinUp Jun 2014 #1

RR nails it again...nt Wounded Bear Jun 2014 #2

k&r for the truth. n/t Laelth Jun 2014 #3

Another myth I regularly come across from right-wingers Fortinbras Armstrong Jun 2014 #4

So true. laundry_queen Jun 2014 #9

Great stuff, kpete, thanks ~ toby jo Jun 2014 #5

Robert Reich is always great. K&R nt riderinthestorm Jun 2014 #6

And underlining these lies is the idea that we all start out equal. Many are disabled at birth or jwirr Jun 2014 #7

Or, conversely, have advantages at birth. merrily Jun 2014 #11

The right smallcat88 Jun 2014 #8

okay from the point of view PatrynXX Jun 2014 #10

So what cures poverty? n/t hughee99 Jun 2014 #12

A plentitude of decent-paying jobs helps a lot. merrily Jun 2014 #15

It sounds like we won't see those things without an improved economy and jobs, though. hughee99 Jun 2014 #19

You are missing the point. Those things are what will improve the economy. merrily Jun 2014 #22

the desire to cure it would help noiretextatique Jun 2014 #23

Uh.... daleanime Jun 2014 #16

Does it? hughee99 Jun 2014 #18

I prefer smaller injections..... daleanime Jun 2014 #20

yes...and teach them to fish noiretextatique Jun 2014 #24

More important is a place to fish. jmowreader Jun 2014 #27

Bravo left is right Jun 2014 #28

yes...I agree noiretextatique Jun 2014 #29

Ah and here is another fallacy Tsiyu Jun 2014 #30

That's on you, not me. hughee99 Jun 2014 #32

lol Tsiyu Jun 2014 #33

Reich just listed three things that don't cure poverty, so I was asking what did cure it hughee99 Jun 2014 #36

I view it like circulation Tsiyu Jun 2014 #37

Poor? What poor? merrily Jun 2014 #13

K&R.... daleanime Jun 2014 #14

k/r fishwax Jun 2014 #17

So how do you "cure" poverty? hakko936 Jun 2014 #21

how do you know that? noiretextatique Jun 2014 #25

It's the most phenomenally stupid economic philosophy Tsiyu Jun 2014 #34

Reich-wing lies drive public policy to the holistic detriment of society, all aided and abetted indepat Jun 2014 #26

Kicked and recommended. Uncle Joe Jun 2014 #31

K&R for Dr Reich & a permalink to this status, alp227 Jun 2014 #35

These lies about poverty are just part of a massive propaganda effort by the .01%. Enthusiast Jun 2014 #38