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To: onedoug

so you believe even if they had plenty of money they would be criminals?


22 posted on 08/09/2014 7:59:06 AM PDT by yldstrk ( My heroes have always been cowboys)
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To: yldstrk

Sure. Just look at soebarkah and the Clintons. And who was the guy that ran that money laundering scam a few years back? Sometimes it even seems like the more money the greater the criminal. Look at Huckabee. He’s pretty well off, but engaged in murder by extension by having parolees do his killing for him.

If there is evil in one’s soul, giving in to it is hardly an extension of one’s purse.


30 posted on 08/09/2014 8:08:38 AM PDT by onedoug
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To: yldstrk; All

“so you believe even if they had plenty of money they would be criminals?”

I will take a stab at that one. In a word, yes. Poverty does not make criminals, at least not in a wealthy society such as the United States. There are many areas in the U.S. where there is poverty but crime is low. Poor people in the United States would be upper middle class in most of the world.

No one in the U.S. is starving because they are poor, unless they squander their food stamps on drugs and alcohol, or because their parents do so rather than provide food for their children.

One of the biggest problem that poor people have in the United States is that they are obese.

The causation arrow is in the other direction. Crime causes poverty because businesses cannot continue being robbed and broken into, so they leave the area. No one wants to build anything up because it will be stolen from them. In the United States, crime causes poverty much more than poverty causes crime.


34 posted on 08/09/2014 9:02:14 AM PDT by marktwain (The old media must die for the Republic to live. Long live the new media!)
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To: yldstrk

Yes I do.

Give them a million and they would have nada by this time next year.


44 posted on 08/09/2014 1:39:49 PM PDT by Red in Blue PA (When Injustice becomes Law, Resistance Becomes Duty.-Thomas Jefferson)
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