You can't protect a nation by allowing the citizens of that nation to suffer. You can't protect a nation by taking the hard earned dollars of the working class and giving it to rich and their corporate minions. You can't protect a nation by letting children starve while you enrich the weapons industry with pointless wars.
You are only interested in the welfare of the nation when it enriches those whose propaganda you believe and you are unwilling to consider compassion or help to anyone those propagandists have denigrated. Keep your soul, if you have one, in a bank vault. As long as people like those you support are in charge, it might be safe there, and you certainly appear to have no use for it in the real world. On Tue, Sep 9, 2014 at 8:21 PM, Rick Faircloth <[email protected]> wrote: > > You don't understand "general vs individual welfare", Maureen. The > Federal governments > job is to protect the nation as a whole, not every individual that makes > up the nation. > > Scout was right. It is not the job of the Federal government to provide > people with food > to eat, clothes to wear, and a roof over their heads. After decades of a > failed social > experiment of rampant welfare, we, as a nation, are seeing the results > of handing out > money to people too lazy to earn it. > > If nothing else, people can clean up the streets, mow grass along the > side of the highways > and do other honorable work to earn their keep. If they don't like these > types of jobs, > then find something better. > > It's time people got off their lazy behinds (those that are abusing the > system) and > earn their keep instead of having it handed to them without cost. > > I can find plenty of work for people to do. Put me in charge of the US > Labor Department > and some things will get done. > > > On 9/9/2014 7:25 PM, Maureen wrote: >> Of course it is. Remember that clause that says "provide for the >> general welfare". Plus the fact that money spent on care and food for >> the elderly and impoverished goes right back into the economy. The >> war of poverty has been one of the more successful government programs >> in terms of raising the standard of living and education in the US. >> >> Even if all the government does is work with business to raise the >> standard of living and income, it matters. Much more so than providing >> weapons and aid to foreign governments that ends up in the hands of >> those who become our enemies. I say again: priorities. Tax dollars >> should not only be spent on the rich. >> >> >> On Tue, Sep 9, 2014 at 7:07 PM, LRS Scout <[email protected]> wrote: >>> That's not the government's job or concern. >>> On Sep 9, 2014 6:51 PM, "Vivec" <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>>> Allowing people to just survive doesn't help them escape poverty. >>>> What actually seems to make a difference is giving them money to lift them >>>> out of poverty. >> > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:372289 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
