Benjamin Franklin on the Poor
"I am for doing good to the poor, but I differ in opinion of the means. I think the best way of doing good to the poor, is not making them easy in poverty, but leading or driving them out of it. In my youth I travelled much, and I observed in different countries, that the more public provisions were made for the poor, the less they provided for themselves, and of course became poorer. And, on the contrary, the less was done for them, the more they did for themselves, and became richer."
They all seem to have "registered" corners now. Some bring their family and many have a dog. One young gal has been "Homeless and Pregnant" per her sign, for the last three years now. She hasn't even started to show yet.
I can't wait until the streets start to be privatized so these negative-value persons can be kept away permanently.
feed them and subsidize their replication. -- j
-- Will Durant, "The Story of Civilization."
The government unions would be up in arms at having their turf infringed on two fronts -
1 - Their position is that those jobs be filled by dues paying union members
2. Actual labor being done risks ending whatever project and thereby endangering their own job security.
homeless since I see how the government drives
people out of their homes. About a year ago, the
City of Richmond put a "Condemned" sticker on
my apartment (which was part of a row house).They
claimed one of the walls was falling down (not
true; a few loose bricks). But even if it had
been, it was none of their God-d****d business.
I tried to get another cheap place; the rental
agent said he didn't have any more cheap places
like that. So now I am paying almost twice as
much rent as before. And I got some message
from Ms. Lady Bountiful, who apparently bought
the house, about some arrangement; to me it
would be like receiving stolen goods,stolen from
the former owner. She can leave me alone. I
don't really want anything to do with her.
We subsidize the indolent and tax the productive. Basic economics: You get more of what you subsidize and less of what you tax.
Regards.
O.A.
The problem is that we are not handing out MRE's. If that was all that Federal Aid consisted of, we would not have a problem.
Jan
QED: If it is not voluntary, it is not charity.
Jan, having fun with letters
http://www.mreinfo.com/us/mre/mres.html
not bad. . I have a bunch in the basement! -- j
Jan