Blog 1 - Post 6 entry 2 Rank, Part 1 "Defend your Stance"

Mr. Rank, has some very good points, and I like the way that he analyzes the poverty model and

dissects it to make something concrete for one to understand what poverty really is,   His

Fundamental questions, 1.   Conditions of poverty and the reason that underlie it, 2.   Judeo, Christian

efforts, and 3.   American Civic Values.   He explains the landscape of American poverty and what

he believes it is and how it works.   I believe that as an American Indian here in this country that this

American dream was the same for us, but it has not worked that way for us and many others born in

this country.   The way I have seen it, many new immigrants come here from another country and

seem to start off alot better off than how we and others have.


I don't believe that this is fair! Yes, I believe in hard work ethic and doing your share in life but

unfortunately that is not how it always works.   When we did our research study work about the cities

of the United States; almost so much detail about the true numbers that aren't there and of those people that are homeless

without to eat it.   It seemed like there statistical numbers didn't even exist.  The study that the

class did in our"Hunger and Homeless class" and what Mr. Rank talks about I feel are two differen things.


Therefore, we that are homeless and listening to Woodie Gutherie and his songs about this land, must

understand that there is a seperate reality to all this debunking of our good people who have been

here from the beginning and find ourselves homeless and lost with no place to go.