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Old 07-28-2011, 11:15 AM   #153
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Originally Posted by Weiser Wonder View Post
Many of you might not realize the state of America's poor but leaving them to fend for themselves is so dramatically stupid. These people have close to nothing and they are getting more and more pissed off. Beyond that, more and more Americans are being pushed out of the middle class and becoming poor. You're risking the economic health and political stability of the world's only Democratic super power, for no good reason.
Even if instability didn't happen, social return on investment studies almost always show that putting money into providing for the poor is cheaper than putting money into dealing with the results of poor people being neglected, which is primarily crime, but also counting disease. I don't know how those numbers would work out on a national scale though, but I assume it would be reasonably close.
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