Quoting Arlo Bensinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > [Platt] > If you are going be guaranteed health care, food on the table, nice > clothing and decent housing, what's the point? > > [Arlo] > If its so glamorous, why haven't your children gone on welfare?
Who said it was glamorous? What you propose -- welfare without work and a large and growing dependent class, would be attractive to some. Does New Orleans and Katrina ring a bell? > [Platt] > Because in my day we had none of those things. Nor did I have any > desire to become a parasite on the backs of hard workers. > > [Arlo] > Are you saying that if you were young today that you'd go on welfare? > You think its that attractive a life? No. It's not attractive today. I hope it never will be. Even it was, I wouldn't like being a parasite on the backs of hard workers. There was a time in this country when going on welfare was shameful -- as it should be. ------------------------------------------------- This mail sent through IMP: http://horde.org/imp/ moq_discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/
