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It's ironic, that one of the most successful public schools in the nation is in Harlem. Where poor folks send their kids to a school that requires discipline, proper dress and scholarship. Something like half of the graduates go on to collage and success. Welfare has nothing to do with it
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Welfare has nothing to do with it? Considering many of these children would have starved to death, or would die of disease, or at least suffer mental retardation due to malnutrition, and would not have anything like stable environments conducive to giving energy to learning, without welfare- I would say welfare has a lot of to do with their opportunity to succeed. So does public education system that is accessible to the poor.
Democracy is an ideology that enables the most people to make their best contribution to the whole of society. A government that does not provide for its poor, is worse than primitives tribes which cared for all members. Indifference to the poor, is the result of being able to avoid personally knowing them, and therefore, avoid enacting all the human qualities that kept humanity going this long. This is one of the problems of over population that leads to immorality.