I think your time and energy is way better spent trying to help that little girl. Congratulations on that, by the way. How much does she need?
>From what I have seen, most help from well-meaning individuals who don't >understand is counterproductive. To go back to my own experience -- which is >not a whine by the way. It happened and I am over it. It's merely an >illustration. What I actually needed was a laptop with wi-fi capability. I'm ok with nobody giving me one and also with good-hearted country folk trying to put me in a box where I didn't belong, but really now -- was the attempt to teach me office skills helpful, do you think? Dana >> Dana wrote: >> I think you should have a safety net. >> > >The question is where does "safety net" end and enablement being? > >Just about anyone would agree that Welfare, in its 80s form, was a >failure: it actually financially encouraged people to jump into the >net because, hey, the net is comfy. > >We see this time and again: when you make bad decisions financially >costly, and good decisions financially encouraging, you get good >behavior. > >The trick is tweaking each end of that spectrum: > >too much help ---------------> swelling of those that need "help" >-------------------- Goldilocks >----------------------------------------------------> Just right >too little help ---------------> swelling of those that need help > >The problem is that when you get the "just right" policy it >necessarily means that the government won't be helping someone. This >is when people complain and we swing back to too much help. > >So how to fix that problem? By agreeing that government's role only >goes so far that that the rest needs to covered by charity - which we >can incent via taxes! > >Example: >This past weekend I helped raise $30k for a little girl. None of my >time or donations can be deducted because I donated to an individual. > >BOTTOM LINE: The best solution is a public-private partnership that >incents people to work, but provides them a stiff net to catch them >when they fall - cause a stiff net will bounce them back out. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Create Web Applications With ColdFusion MX7 & Flex 2. Build powerful, scalable RIAs. Free Trial http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion/flex2/?sdid=RVJS Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:237526 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
