03-19-2006, 05:18 AM
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Originally Posted by aceventura3
To be in the library and to listen to Clinton's ideals and then to see the conditions in his state, further reinforced my feeling that government is not the answer. When I talked to people in the state about the conditions in the impoverished areas the general response was that the people in those conditions were almost totally dependent on government and have failed to take any individual initiative to improve their condition.
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I recommend you visit the George Bush Presidential Library in College Station , TX.
"Only Brownsville, TX with a poverty rate of 44% has a higher poverty rate among cities with populations over 50,000 than College Station .Others in the "top five" were College Station with 38%; Monroe, LA with 37.8%; Laredo, TX with 37.3%; and Camden, NJ with 36.6%. Detroit had the highest rate among large U.S. cities with 32.4% followed by Chicago with 21.6%. Current poverty levels are defined by the federal government to be $6,652/yr for one person, $8,509/yr for a family of two, $10,419/yr for a family of three, and $13,359/yr for a family of four."
http://www.rtis.com/reg/bcs/pol/touc...96/poverty.htm
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