Quote Originally Posted by Crumbled_pavement View Post
So please explain to me why more people born into wealth continue to live above poverty most of their lives, and most people born into poverty continue to be impoverished most of their lives?
Anyone who graduates high school, doesn't become a parent before age 20 [[and is married when they do), and avoids drugs and alcohol has statistically almost no chance of spending much time, let alone a lifetime, in poverty.

Why did my friend Jowell in New York move to the US in 2000 from Haiti with no education, no money, speaking almost no English and now owns 2 very successful small businesses? How did he do it? HE WORKED HARD, SAVED HIS MONEY, AND PROMOTED HIS OWN IDEAS. And he is about to become a citizen. Great guy. No one ever told him his circumstances were permanent or out of his control. He wanted things and he obtained them. No hand outs, no complaining. He spent years working in bars, starting at the lowest rung. But before striking out on his own, he was running a bar for someone else. He rose from $5/hour [[plus tips) barback to head bartender making bank in 4 years. When his T-shirt, and then record label, took off, he was able to give that up. He has earned everything he has from scratch. He has more than most people do, and started with far less not that long ago.

As far as helping kids, getting kids out of non-schools that we call Detroit Public Schools is the best thing society can do to help them. Even if your intentions are good, not favoring a broad school choice program is to condemn most kids in this city to getting a crappy education. The entire United States Treasury could not turn our schools around; lack of money is not the issue. So lets abandon them, and allow kids to attend other schools [[public in other districts, charter and private anywhere) where they would have a shot at an education. The kids are more important than the system.