This will not be popular here. Kristof: Profiting From a Child’s Illiteracy

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2. It's the outcome of a bandaid approach

not the outcome of every program intended to fight poverty.

For example: There are dozens of groups selling themselves as foundations intended to "help Appalachia."

They get the grants and help themselves. I see it happen over and over. Yet we read articles like this on the bottom of the food chain, and rarely a story on the scavengers who have a second home in a gated community far removed from actual Appalachia selling their latest "foundation" as if they know a frickin' thing about Appalachia. Getting grants that should go to actual hurting mountain people.

These are well-to-do people who want to appear altruistic and wise, and maybe they have a smidge of care, but they are taking advantage of programs that really are designed to help the poor.

There are a handful of groups I know who do actually help; one was started by uppity wymmins here.

Appalachia's issues need to be resolved, and our "Pull yourself up by your bootstraps" Republican Supermajority in the state of Tennessee should make it a priority here, but of course Republicans want the little problem of Appalachia to be a SOCIALIZED problem. Especially when they know their own families benefit from the exploitation of the mountain people.

Republican Family Values: Privatize the profits of your exploitation of families, socialize the economic fallout for those families.


Anyhoo.....