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Old 05-25-2008, 03:21 PM   #81 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by loquitur
People born into extreme poverty have been making it out of poverty for a long time, will. Being born poor isn't a lifetime sentence. And putting people in the tender hands of govt isn't the way out, either. Or have the last 40 years of evidence not shown you anything?
The last 40 years, since the Great Society programs, demonstrated to me that the emergence of a growing black middle class was, in large part, a product of those programs.

BTW, blacks are also twice as likely as whites to work in government jobs...for city, state, or federal government.
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