5th Annual Poor People's March of Cleveland

Family Connection Center, Stop Targeting Ohio's Poor, Oct. 22nd Coalition, "We Demand Jobs" Coalition, Bail Out The People Movement, Black on Black Crime Inc., Northeast Ohio Anti-War Coalition, Budget Priorities, Workers World Party, Revolutionary Communist Party, Cleveland FIST, and others marched for jobs, healthcare, education, and justice in Cleveland on August 21st, 2009.

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[561tran]

March your asses to Mcdonalds to fill out apps for employment.

Leeches,I bet they all have HD tv and computers and cell phones at home.

Yet they still cry out I'm poor and the people who work have to pay for these parasites.

These scum have no clue what poor is.

[jankinsanon]

There are low cost state plans, charity hospitals, Health Savings Accounts, and other plans that can cover that. Contact your local state health and human services office -- they would gladly offer a social worker.

And I dont think Libertarianism has killed millions of people unlike socialism and communism has in the past - which I assume that you want.

[jankinsanon]

Everybody dont pursue white collar work - thats also a fallacy as well. Our society is not based upon minimum wage jobs.

Economic development is based upon the premise of entrepreneurship. You have to create wealth. Wealth is not given by the government. Manufacturing is part of that creating wealth - where have all the manufacturing jobs went (in Cleveland and the rest of the country)? Oh yeah, China and India.

[Dedgurlsingblu]

It is a western fallacy to believe that education equals opportunity. It does not, and their are a great deal of youth in inner cities who have college educations, but if their are no jobs a degree means nothing. This thinking also ignores that our society is built on minimum wage jobs. What happens when everyone pursues white collar work, a shortage of jobs, and destruction of services we count on daily. The solutions you present are too simple for the actual problems faced.

[papageno88]

epilepsy being a preexisting condition. What you as a libertarian believe is that economic failure is indicative of moral failure, but what you can't admit is that you must believe that if you fail economically than you deserve to die. Libertarianism is seeded in a hatred of all people who are legitimately oppressed because it threatens their privilege. Libertarianism is morally bankrupt and democratically bankrupt.

[papageno88]

jankinsanon

Clearly you have no understanding of the health care needs of the people. Better diet and exercise (despite being a privilege of the people who have the money/time to spend on it) are only part of health care needs. What about the disabled who constantly need health care but cannot get it. There are people dying of life threatening ailments who cannot get the greatly expensive but necessary drugs. An epileptic may need $1000 in prescriptions which won't get insured due to...

[jankinsanon]

Why dont the youth in the inner city go to schools, stay out of trouble, and graduate then go to college and then they would have better opportunities for jobs. Jobs dont fall out from the sky you know.

Its a shame that people have this selfish sense of entitlement. Healthcare is a responsibility and not a right. Eat better, exercise and do the right things, you wouldnt get these bad ailments.