Oh, lordy... The Freepers are discussing poverty tonight

The article is about education:

“Overall, in a very short span, we’ve seen a widening gulf between those with the least and most education in America.”

It sounds like those egghead ivory-tower brainiac professors are saying their better then us!! See how they like it when we defund all Public Universities!

Liberals don't get it.
It's not education and health care. Those aren't the problems - it's drug use, gang deaths ( yes, those are averaged in to how long a group lives) and stupid life choices ( smoking, alcoholism, promiscuity etc) It's liberals making people dependent and broken... to secure cheap votes.

In a true free market, most people start their professional lives poor and end them rich. In this environment, a growing gap between rich and poor means the sky is the limit for people just entering the market place. It's a GOOD thing and means we're living in a wealthy country, not bad.

Only in countries where people are born into their class and are condemned to live out their lives in their caste is a big gap between rich and poor bad.

We've wasted bazillions of dollars on the "War on Poverty", and we now have the richest, best nourished poor people in the History of Man, we have the most expensive health care system on the planet, and as a nation, we rank #38 in life expectancy, behind Cuba.
So now it's education. "If we don’t create better education ladders for Americans to climb, we will find ourselves in a polarized country". We already have a polarized country! And there are plenty of education ladders, we just have waaaay too many people who want to be lifted by a crane because they're too fat and lazy to climb the abundant ladders that are readily available.

The kind of poverty we have in the US isn't the kind of poverty that more money will fix, so why even try?