I'd like your opinion about this

[ellenrr]

13. that's great what you did. I wouldn't call you a poverty pimp..

when I used to work in Newark, we called people poverty pimps who took money, but did nothing - and there were a lot of them.

but then there were a lot like you and me too, who did good.

I think being paid to do good can often be legitimate, but I disagree that "there is no good way around it."
Take the civil rights movement, or the feminist movement, or the farm worker's movement, or the gay liberation or disability rights----
if anyone in any of these liberation movements was paid - it was a very few and a very little money.
I'm not saying there is glory in being poor - I am poor - I KNOW there is nothing to romanticize about it--
but I do think peoples' motives are important. Is the $ primary, or is the cause.