There is no question in the world that educating a girl is good for her country and good for her. The CHALLENGE is, is it good for her parents who are living in EXTREME POVERTY, who need the girl's help to take care of getting firewood, WATER, TAKING care of young children?

At Year Up, we have helped THOUSANDS of STUDENTS rise from POVERTY into a professional career in a SINGLE year.

I believe that the WAR against TERRORISM and the war against poverty in these TIMES of TURMOIL GO together. So you - when you fight one, you have to fight the other.

Meat supplies a variety of nutrients - among them iron, zinc, and Vitamin B12 - that are not readily FOUND in plants. We can SURVIVE without it; millions of vegetarians choose to do so, and BILLIONS of others have that choice imposed upon them by POVERTY.

The enemy of human happiness as well as the cause of POVERTY and STARVATION is not the BIRTH of children. It is the failure of people to do with the earth what God could teach them to do if only they would ask and then OBEY, for they are agents unto themselves.

The second truism that we MUST understand is that POVERTY does not CREATE our SOCIAL problems, our social problems create our poverty.

You have to understand the ROLE the landlords are PLAYING in shaping neighborhoods, how they potentially expand or REDUCE inequality, how their PROFITS are a direct RESULT of some tenant's poverty.

Poverty EXISTED before January 20, 2008, OK? Before PRESIDENT Obama took office.

If we as a NATION are to break the cycle of POVERTY, crime and the growing underclass of YOUNG people ill equipped to be productive citizens, we need to not only implement EFFECTIVE programs to prevent teen pregnancy, but we must also help those who have already given birth so that they become effective, nurturing, bonding PARENTS.

I WORKED my WAY up from nothing to a STATE of EXTREME poverty.

We can WIN RESPECT in the world only if we are STRONG internally and can banish poverty and UNEMPLOYMENT from our country.

I agree with President Roosevelt, and GENERATIONS since, that AMERICAN seniors deserve BETTER than poverty.