"Jay Honeck" wrote in message
news:aSTmd.351017$wV.228537@attbi_s54...
I never said poverty was the ONLY cause of crime. But it's pretty dumb
to
think that there's NO causal relationship.

I don't believe anyone ever claimed that there was NO causal relationship
between crime and poverty.

What I implied, however, is that we shouldn't care if there is.

In America, theft is a moral problem, not an economic one. No one needs
to
steal to survive here. Therefore, no one "needs" to steal.

THe notion that people steal to survive is patently bogus. Stealing for food
is maybe 1% of theft. Stealing for drugs or "toys" is far more prevalent.

(Jay, would you hire some gang member to work in your hotel? Why not?)

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Matt
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Matthew W. Barrow
Site-Fill Homes, LLC.
Montrose, CO