DT> doors. One quarter of all children in the United States under the 
DT> age of DT> six live in poverty and children comprise 40% of all 
DT> people living in  poverty. Bracey points out that "The United States 
DT> has more than twice the proportion of children in poverty than all 
DT> other industrialized nations. In the United States, 53 percent of
DT> black children and 42  percent of Hispanic children are in poverty. 
PK>Why don't we do something to change all this?
1. It would cost too much.
2. Not enough people care enough.
3. It has proven to be very difficult to effect social change
   through external means.
4. Socialism appears to be an ineffective governmental system.
5. When we became a technological people, the differences
   between members of our society became more obvious, thus
   causing more differentiation.
6. The demand for intellectual skills rose as the demand for
   manual or unskilled labor decreased.   
7. For everyone to earn a comfortable wage, or to live in
   relative comfort, we must either educate everyone equally
   (which I don't think can be done), or we must create the 
   need for more manual or unskilled labor.  Something like 
   another frontier, for example, would offer the opportunity
   for those who work with their hands to live comfortably... 
   Our best hope for this might be the colonization of the 
   oceans or space...
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