Wasted Charity; Why the 'compassion industry' is not helping the poor.

(Hat tip: KimR) - Robert Lupton's book is ruffling some feathers. In Toxic Charity: How Churches and Charities Hurt Those They Help (And How to Reverse It) (HarperOne), the 40-year veteran urban minister "takes the gloves off" and argues that much of Americans' charitable giving "is either wasted or actually harms the people it is targeted to help. Read more at Christianity Today Read More......

Sen. Mike Lee on Fighting for Equal Opportunity

FOUNDRY, by Sen Mike Lee (R-Utah) - “In this present crisis,” Ronald Reagan famously declared, “government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem.” These words, though they inspired a generation of conservatives, almost sound quaint today. ✧ Government of course remains the problem, but the nature of that problem has evolved dramatically since Reagan’s first inaugural. If Republicans want to grow their party into a national majority, we must begin, as Reagan did in 1981, by confronting our present crisis: America’s large and growing Opportunity Deficit, namely, immobility among the poor and insecurity in the middle class. ✧ Compounding the shortage of opportunities among the poor and middle class is an unholy union of big government, big business, and big special interests that twists public policy to benefit Washington insiders unfairly at the expense of everyone else.

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The Appalling Atrocity in America's Public Schools

David Horowitz - There is a human tragedy smoldering in America’s inner cities. Twelve million poor children, mainly black and Hispanic, are trapped in failing government schools that are teaching them nothing. As a result, they will never get a chance at a middle-class life. Virtually every school board and every administration in inner city districts is controlled by Democrats, and has been for over fifty years. Everything that is wrong with inner city schools that policy can fix, Democrats are responsible for.

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Is registering the poor to vote un-American?

By Matthew Vadum (Hat tip: JHD)- Why are left-wing activist groups so keen on registering the poor to vote? ✧ Because they know the poor can be counted on to vote themselves more benefits by electing redistributionist politicians. Read more at American Thinker...

Note the difference between what Cloward & Piven want(ed) to achieve and what Thomas Sowell knows will lift the poor out of poverty in his recent article, "Two Different Worlds." --bc Read More......

Democrats And The Black Hole Of Education Spending

PANTANO FOR U.S. CONGRESS (NC-7, Republican Congressional Candidate), 6/22/2010 by Ilario Pantano - The Democrats are demanding we spend another $23 billion to shore up public education employment. Take a look at these shocking graphs of public school spending, employment, and results. They have been unable to improve education in 40 years, despite spending four times as much money on public education! See charts and read more at Pantano for U.S. Congress... Read More......

Top ten poverty cities

What do the top ten cities (over 250,000) with the highest poverty rate have in common?

1. Detroit, MI - 32.5% - hasn't elected a Republican mayor since 1961;
   
2. Buffalo, NY - 29.9% - hasn't elected one since 1954;
   
3. Cincinnati, OH - 27.8% - since 1984;
   
4. Cleveland, OH - 27.0% - since 1989;
   
5. Miami, FL - 26.9% - has never had a Republican mayor;
   
6. St. Louis, MO - 26/8% - since 1949;
   
7. El Paso , TX - 26.4% - has never had a Republican mayor;
   
8. Milwaukee, WI - 26.2% - since 1908;
   
9. Philadelphia, PA - 25.1% - since 1952;
   
10. Newark, NJ - 24.2% - since 1907.

Data Source: U.S. Census Bureau, 2006 American Community Survey, August 2007

Einstein once said, "The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results."

It is the poor who habitually elect Democrats---yet they are still POOR.

"You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich. You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong. You cannot bring about prosperity by discouraging thrift. You cannot lift the wage earner up by pulling the wage payer down. You cannot further the brotherhood of man by inciting class hatred. You cannot build character and courage by taking away people's initiative and independence. You cannot help people permanently by doing for them, what they could and should do for themselves." -- Rev. William J. H. Boetcker, pamphlet writer, 1916

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How one thinks about money...

Something You Should Know, September 20, 2007, Mike Carruthers

Differences Between The Rich & Middle Class: Interview with Keith Cameron Smith, author of The Top 10 distinctions Between Millionaires and the Middle Class

Mike Carruthers: Financially speaking, there are five types of people.

Keith Cameron Smith:
They are, the very poor, the poor, the middle class, the rich and very rich - and each one of those types thinks differently about money.

Keith Cameron Smith, author of the book The Top 10 Distinctions Between Millionaires and the Middle Class… Very poor people will think day-to-day. Poor people think week-to-week; middle class people think month-to-month; rich people think year-to-year and then very rich people will think decade-to-decade. So one of the keys to becoming financially free is to stretch your thinking further into the future.

And these five different types of people have very distinctive financial goals.

Primary goals for the poor and the very poor is survival and the primary goal for middle class people is comfort and most people live there. But the primary goal for the rich and very rich is freedom - where I'm going to do whatever it takes to experience abundance and freedom. And I think the old saying, "Seek and you will find" is very true when it comes to your finances. So if you seek to survive you will, if you seek to be comfortable you will be, but if you seek freedom you will find it.

Having studied successful people, Keith says, how they think and talk is different.

And when I speak around the country, I always offer up a challenge for the next seven days - try not to complain. And once you can go seven days without complaining, you start to become very aware of how powerful your words are. Your tongue is kind of like the rudder of a ship - it determines which direction you're headed in life. And so if you want to see where you're going to be next year or five years from now, you can really just listen to your own conversation and that will give you a real good clue.

At somethingyoushouldknow.net I'm Mike Carruthers and that's Something You Should Know.

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