Obama to attend Georgetown University poverty summit next week | National Catholic Reporter

Obama to attend Georgetown University poverty summit next week | National Catholic Reporter by MSW. MGB: This should be an interesting forum.  I wonder who else is going and what they will be allowed to say. I am sure the President will bring good remarks and perhaps some ideas - but we have mostly heard them. Some ae good but are they sufficient?  Probably not. Will anyone who is going have the needed ideas?  Possibly for some cases, but not systemicly, as that would take the kind of cooperative socialism that the sponsors would blanche at.  In the US we do have poor people that are as profoundly poor as you get - our untouchable homeless.  While they also have resilience, such homelessness is fatal if not intervened on. Of course, the qanswer to that, as is being reported today in the WaPo is to find them a place to live and then treat them -but that takes money.  Will taxes help?  Yes.  So will responsibility - the kind of responsibility a group can bring to the table - not just a bureaucracy.  Either way, its not free and must be an obligation.  There is lots of room in fulfilling such obligations - but they must be seen as somethng that is not optional - or else we are the poor.