Reply #6: Having a book on poverty and a plan to end poverty is not enough discussion? [View All]

[draft_mario_cuomo]

==It stems from a lot of different issues, not simply "poverty"....


Lack of education - Education was discussed

Lack of Jobs - Outsourcing and Immigration issues were discussed

Lack of Health Care - was also discussed

Lack of decent affordable housing - I ain't heard anyone, including Edwards touch on this one.==

Candidates have been speaking of the first three issues for years. What has happened? Ending poverty takes a commitment to doing it, not small band aids here and there. It requires the kind of leadership--and money to back up rhetoric--that FDR and LBJ showed.

==The bottomline is, just mentioning "poverty" is not enough. Edwards could have touched on this issue had he chosen to...by way of health care. he chose not to, but chose to say that the subject hadn't been discussed. Far as I'm concerned, Edwards didn't "discuss" poverty anymore than the others.==

That is true for tonight. However, poverty has been a central theme of his campaign from day one. He has a book out on the subject and a plan to end it. You cannot place Edwards in the same category as the other candidates who never mention poverty, let alone offer policy proposals to eradicate it.