Adrian DeVore is afraid of poverty. Really afraid. So afraid that a hysterical prediction of a “hurricane of poverty” was made.

Where does the Daily find these people? They’re just so caring yet factually inefficient at the same time.

1. There are literally HUNDREDS of education/training opportunities fully funded by the local, state, and federal governments RIGHT NOW. We don’t need more.

2. The Republicans are no more amoral than Democrats as a group, individuals, or even in leadership. There are literally hundreds of examples we could go over here.

Sure, there are some real jerks in both parties, but your pious attack by assuming moral superiority is a shallow, cheap shot.

3. How much more redistricting do we need in our big cities? It has been done before and has been an abysmal failure. Is it fair to ruin the property value of people who have worked hard all their life to own a home by putting low income housing all through the neighborhood? You seem to think that redistricting will raise the community, but in fact it brings more down. This again has been well documented.

4. There is almost NO EVIDENCE (if any) a national healthcare system would end the generations of poverty perpetuated by the welfare system.

However, there is near complete agreement among economists that a national healthcare system would bankrupt the economy. People will always abuse whatever is free. See examples in Welfare, HUD, Medicare, etc.

Welfare is being reformed because it is a failure. There are more people on Welfare (as a percentage of the population) now than there were in the depression.

Our government has been doing something WRONG all these years with concerns to welfare, and the evidence is ample.

The solutions are not giving more away in a system that manages less than 20 cents for every dollar it is given to administer.

If you’re scared of a flood in poverty, stop waiting for the government to come hold your hand or carry you to higher ground.

Unless missiles are involved, our government never does anything efficiently.

Even then, we’re only above average. My advice is that you start filling the sandbags yourself.

Apply your education to either making a ton of money and giving it all away to the poor or to working with the poor in a private industry where it might do some good.

John Davidson

Alum, JLMC 1991

Atlanta, GA