RAF, Yes, there was a horrible story on the news just yesterday of parents down in W. Virginia encouraging their kids to fail their school classes so they could continue to claim they were 'disabled' and collect $500/month disability payments on their kids...
As you say, generosity towards the poor often perpetuates their poverty.... Any generosity on the part of the government should be aimed at improving the underlying condition rather than perpetuating it... Edgar On Dec 10, 2012, at 10:27 PM, R A Fonda wrote: > On 12/10/2012 9:33 PM, Joe wrote: > >> those old places lived on the handouts and donations of others, already!, >> themselves!, and they had to be very, very careful about who they let in. > > Very true, but even today, let us imagine merle walking up to a modern > American zen center and telling them that her superior vision of compassion > obliges them to become homeless shelters, giving needy people "a thousand > days" of food and shelter, or ten days, or even one day. > > One could hardly ask for a better example of how some people confuse "higher > consciousness" with their self-righteous generosity with other people's > money. I have no problem with them demonstrating compassion by giving their > assets away ... I wonder how many homeless people she has living in HER > 'squat'? The problem is that they band together to empower politicians to > steal from the productive, and the political elites then share the loot with > their kleptocrat allies or waste it on wars, or pay off their client > electorates such as the government 'workers' and very little gets spent on > the needy, many of whom, unfortunately, were social parasites rather than > people who just had some bad luck. However, government mismanagement > (including taking so much from the productive workers and investors) has now > crippled the economy, so that there really ARE a lot of people who would LIKE > to work, but there just aren't any jobs for them. Moreover, there are about > the same number of unemployed American citizens as there are illegal > immigrants, and people who share merle's views are SO compassionate toward > those illegal immigrants that they don't stop to think how cruel it is for > American workers to lose their homes because 'compassion' precludes reserving > jobs for our own citizens. > > RAF > >
