[news] We Need to Treat Poverty's Root, Not Just Its Symptoms

[Resist!ca]

If you are one of the people who are immediately wanting to open your house up to the survivors of the Katrina disaster, who are immediately wanting to welcome these survivors into your schools and public/social services systems, you need to really ask yourself this question: "Do poor people really need to DIE and SUFFER HORRIBLY en masse in front of you, to get you to care about the homeless and poverty issues in America?" The Katrina massacre by our federal government was one thing, but the conditions that existed, where these poor folks were neglected by their government PRIOR to this is a reality.

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/9/7/81558/52025