Quote Originally Posted by mwilbert View Post
If there is anyplace you don't need developers to address the problems of the poor, it is Detroit. To address the needs of the poor, you need to figure out how to employ them, or give them money, or provide them with other non-cash assistance. I'm not aware of anyone against education, but it isn't going to help the poor in any reasonable timeframe--at this point it barely helps the lower middle class, such as it is.
The long-term fix is education, not hand-outs. We need to teach poor people and their parents that our youth is going to attend school, not drop out, stop having babies at a point in their lives that it will de-rail them, stay away from drugs and drinking, etc... We can't just give things to people, we've got to educate them so they are motivated to making the choices to lift themselves out of poverty.

Poor people keep making choices that guarentee their future of being poor. If we can educate our youth about how their decisions are going to have long lasting consequences, then maybe they won't make those decisions.