Giving Thanks - NYTimes.com.
Poverty is a diabolical predicament that not only makes scarce one’s physical comforts, but drains away one’s spiritual strength. It damages hopes and dreams, and having deficits among those things is when the soul begins to die.This is a single paragraph from an excellent piece by Charles Blow.
Many people seem to think that poverty is -- must be! -- the result of personal failings. It is worth considering that poverty is the output of a certain structure designed to produce wealth for the few.
I hope he will explore what Georgists believe is the only way to end poverty: removing the economic structures whose effect is to impoverish many in order to enrich a relative few.
That analysis and solution can be found in "Progress and Poverty" and "Social Problems," by Henry George, and underlies several of his speeches, including "The Crime of Poverty," "Thou Shalt Not Steal" and "Thy Kingdom Come," all available online.
One might also explore Walt Rybeck's "Re-Solving the Economic Puzzle," and the newly published "Mason Gaffney Reader" (about which more, soon), both available from the Henry George Institute and Amazon.
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