TPPF Poverty/Prosperity Summit: Poverty and it's Causes (Luncheon Keynote)

"Open your mouth, judge righteously,
And plead the cause of the poor and needy."
Proverbs 31:9

 Stephen F. Austin Hotel -- TPPF's summit on Prosperity and Poverty continues; Father Robert Siricio is the Luncheon Keynote speaker:

Broadcast live streaming video on Ustream

Highlights:

• Prosperity is the most important tool to alleviate poverty.
• Charity good, prosperity more important.
• The mundane, work-a-day, world of work.

• Giving stuff away hurts local entrepreneurs
• At a minimum, means test.

• We have to respect the dignity of the poor and govt. welfare doesn't do that.

• Move from aid to enterprise, poverty alleviation to wealth creation, dependency to productivity.

• At some point, we're gonna hit a critical mass.