[johnco]

While I believe some of the displaced persons will take this opportunity of getting out of the slums they were in, being exposed to new and better things and doing something with that experience and chance, most will just slide back into the same situation they were in sooner or later. I've tried helping several poor people by working them, giving them furniture and other things they need, exposing them to bigger and better things than what they are used to, taking them to areas they never would have gone... but what it all boiled down to at the end of the day was if they had enough money to get high that night. it didn't matter how much they were paid.. $10 or $500, they were broke the next morning. I was told by one guy that he lives for today, not tomorrow. he worked for me for 2 years, made decent money, had a full house of furniture and other things given to him by me, but in those 2 years, never managed to get his water or electrity turned on in the house he lived in for free. and he always bragged he had a college education. it's a mind set. he did more complaining about the white man keeping him down than doing anything about it. 40 acres and a mule was his war cry.