[quote=flu]I might have come across as a heartless dick that doesn’t care about the less fortunate. But I am not…
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To me, you didn’t come across as a heartless dick at all. A little angry, perhaps, and not without justification. As for the rest of your post, you’re pretty much preaching to the choir.
Especially this:
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All our ‘fixes’ to try to address any sort of inequality is always quick fixes AFTER the impact of adversity has happened. If anything, if money/resources should be spent, it should be spent to shore up those blight communities with adverse environments at the grade level… not lowering the bar after adversity has happened.
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That would be a lot more expensive, time-consuming, and politically difficult than just lobbing an “adversity score” into the mix. Hence the lack of action. But I agree 100% that that’s what’s necessary if we want to our country to be everything it can be.
