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Read this entire article: http://stateofopportunity.michiganradio.org/post/want-out-poverty-move http://stateofopportunity.michiganradio.org/post/want-out-po... It is extremely naive to think that spending $24 on a bus ticket is a one-size-fits-all solution that will work for all poor people in Detroit, and work without a drop of your taxpayer input. That concept might work for a select few, but it's doomed to fail when played out on a large scale. There are thousands of more factors than "spend $24 on a bus ticket, or spend $24 on a six pack and two #2 from McD's". Here are just a couple: do I have family where I am going? do I know that the bus route exists? do I have $24 in cash, or am I running behind on a cash advance from my last paycheck? will I, and my family, be able to eat this weekend if I get this ticket? how do I arrange for housing, temporary or permanent, before I get there? (if I have a job,) what do I do about my job? will I get a job if I move? how do I redirect any government assistance that I am getting to my new temp/perm. address? What is "shower money on the city" if not financial support for social services and infrastructure? How can you say that my impression is off, when you're literally saying "don't shower money on the city"? Where do you think this money goes? The "blight-removal efforts" are a step in the right direction, and hey, guess what? They take taxpayer money! So do community centers, well staffed and equipped schools, and youth programs. I'm very glad that you've apparently handcrafted your own bootstraps, boots and fences over which those boots will climb, but not all of your fellow Americans were born so fortunate. I think that breaking up entrenched pockets of poverty is a good idea, but it's a bad idea to think that it can be done without some governmental intercession.