Dear Editor,
Poverty, is it a cause or an effect? Some have said alcoholism and mental illness are a treatable disease. Some have said poverty is just a lack of education or ambition. So, are addiction, crime and abuse effects of poverty or the cause? Does lack of education mean lack of knowledge, experience or discipline? Are addictions genetic or taught by background, example? The same with any violence or abuse, has it become an acceptable way of life? With sex trafficking and suicide being high in Yellowstone county, does that make it okay?
In our efforts to pass laws, are we treating the cause or just hiding the symptoms? Jonathan may be right with a local paper, let’s expose and clean up our local problems first.
Lauris Byxbe,
Pompey’s Pillar
