I think a better description might be that less educated people tend to be poor, rather than just stupid. More educated people tend not to be poor. I have found that often bad decisions that people make often lead to more bad decisions and things spiral down from there. People get stuck in that rut and can't get out. I think you hit the nail on the head with mental health issues, drugs, ETOH, etc.

Doc, you're way off course! No wonder your fellow safari mates are fumbling and bumbling like they're lost. Go here:

http://wmtu.mtu.edu/forum/viewtopic.php?t=6656

So with that in mind, do you think that the source of the problem is really in the education of our children? If children have better access to a decent education, they'll make better decisions and get out of the rut their parents are in?

While I think that yes we do need to look closely at education and ways to improve systems across the board both in private and public sectors, I don't think that's the only answer. It needs to be a multi-pronged approach and of course we could discuss those issues all day and come no closer to solving the problem.

I do believe that ultimately, there will always be poor people, and there'll always be rich people, and there'll always be the rest of us who sit somewhere in between. I think this is how societies based on capitalism work and always will work, and even though here in Australia we have more government monitoring, we're still a capitalist society in many ways, so will always be subject to the same problems although perhaps to a lesser degree than in the US in some ways.

I am not a member of the safari crowd. They fired me after "the incident".

Just so ya know.

I think someone should tell these clowns where to put doctored images of cellar dwellars...if they think they've earned the right to participate in such threads of course.

Monster, maybe you could show them how it should be done? I don't think they're very good.

Bosh. When it's class warfare, you'll KNOW it. We haven't even started eating those bastards yet.

The upper class has been crapping on our heads for 60 years. Hell, now they're taking your taxes to pay CEOs bonuses. Crapping back is a perfectly acceptable response.

WRAAAAAAAAAATH!

I think most people have be praying that the solution was to provide better education to the poor kids. So far we can't even do that effectively. It would be a hard thing to measure. We shouldn's stop trying.

We knew that from post one.

Outstanding! You get a gold star!

http://i278.photobucket.com/albums/k...s/retard15.jpg

We knew you looked like that too.

TGRR you are so cute for a retard! :D

Someone stamp his forehead with a star! :lol2:

Don't hate me because I'm beautiful

TGRR,
Knows the horrible truth is far, far worse.

At least we know he don't rub shit in his hair.