Reply #4: I understand both points of view. On the one hand, one [View All]

[Colorado Blue]

could be forgiven for feeling, OK, so now the fox is getting a salary to guard the henhouse. YIKES.

But JOBS - jobs are so important for building this new country.

All we need to do is look backward, at the punitive actions against Germany after WWI, to understand the role poverty can play in radicalizing a population.

Hitler was seen, first, not as the Wagnerian monster he became, but as the bringer of prosperity and modernism to Germany. He used that popularity as a stepping stone to promote his darker agenda. But that darkness was already there, in the anger of the German people.

Was it always there? Some people say yes, there is violence inherent. But others say, it was the poverty and sense of humiliation suffered after WWI, and of course during the Depression, that tipped the balance and drove the German people into madness and war.

I think, calm and prosperity would do wonders to heal, not just the Palestinian situation, but so much of the Middle East. How many problems arise from a sense of insecurity combined with a lack of stable income, and a solid link to the modern world?