Quoting ARLO J BENSINGER JR <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > [Platt] > I know. You want to be known as Arlo the compassionate and generous with other > people's money. I prefer to be known as Platt the self-sufficient and promoter > of freedom from dependency. > > [Arlo] > I don't want to be known as anything.
Ah, the first person ever without an ego. > And we have different ideas as to what > leads one to be non-self-sufficient. You seem to think laziness and sloth are > primary factors, where people are lured by the high-life of welfare. I think > bad things happen to good people, and economic forces on a high level > (financial and employment drain) have much more to do with overall > impoverishness than simple "sloth". Why not look at the bright side and attribute economic forces in a free society as providing the highest standard of living in the world? > Look at the following Poverty Map, showing poverty trends across the USA. > > http://www.censusscope.org/us/map_poverty.html > > By your reckoning, this would prove that Southerners are typically lazy and > slothful, while the North East Corridor is populated by motivated workers. It > would also seem to indicate that the near-entire populations of West Virginia > and Kentucky are leeches who have choosen to suck the life out of those in the > North East. Sounds reasonable to me. Actually, those designated as living in poverty in the U.S. live better than most of the poor in the world. > What this map represents is employment trends, really. The death of the rust > belt and the rebirth of technology in the north east, among others. It is not > that Pennsylvanians are more motivated to work than West Virginians, but that > the work is here and not there. Should the entire population move from there > to > here, of course, would still leave as many unemployed. There are only so many > jobs to go around. That's nonsense. Employment has grown almost every year since I can remember. Your zero-sum game is just that, a game. It doesn't reflect reality in a capitalist economy. > And while self-sufficiency is a wonderful thing for you to preach, it doesn't > change the reality that who does and who does not receive medical care should > not be left to market forces. All this does is reify the idea that people are > only as valuable as their wealth. That's not reality. That's your opinion. ------------------------------------------------- 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/
