It looks like you're using an Ad Blocker.
Please white-list or disable AboveTopSecret.com in your ad-blocking tool.
Thank you.
Some features of ATS will be disabled while you continue to use an ad-blocker.
Originally posted by neo96
reply to post by crazyewok
Did you read anything I said in these posts ?
www.abovetopsecret.com...
www.abovetopsecret.com...
www.abovetopsecret.com...
www.abovetopsecret.com...
www.abovetopsecret.com...
www.abovetopsecret.com...
Anything WHAT SO EVER ?
You say get rid of social programs but you fail to give any workable solution as:
When we have 100 million Americans on food aid that is a program too far that just lines corporate pockets taking money from me and you to pay for people's existence. in a country of 310 million Americans, and some people are telling me that is a 'necessity' I say no it's not, the only people 'deserving' of any help are only the people who are not able body or mind to the people who have no options. Any one who is able body or mind up to themselves.
That sir Heff is a false dilemma we both know it people have multiple means to provide for themselves. 1. Friends,Family,or Food Shelters. 2. Get a job, or do anything they can to make cash to eat. Anyone who says Government is the only option well it's not that is just outsourcing the 'responsibility' that some people claim we are suppose to have. Since the prevailing wisdom is anything government creates will become corrupted,bloated or misused the prevailing 'logic' or 'wisdom' is to not create it in the first place. There is nothing stopping we the people from helping out any other person the issue is when people default that to government.
Originally posted by Hefficide
reply to post by neo96
How is need a false dilemma? You do realize that disability means disabled - as in "not able". What gets me angry is how often disability is categorically looked at, by some, as a choice of some sort.
Family and private charity are both great things... except when they're not. In my own life journey I've found that private charity is woefully overburdened - often having waiting periods of months or years just to get an interview. As for family? If the disabled person has close relatives who are willing to help, they are fortunate. Many have no close relatives or have close relatives who are too selfish to care.
Speaking from person experience... When I first got sick, my brother in law, who claims to be very conservative, sat me down on my birthday to tell me that suicide is the noble answer for the ill, as suicide is the most humane thing a sick person can do for the benefit of their able bodied loved ones. In fact he insisted that my continued life was a direct insult to everyone I ever cared about, my children, and my community.
Though a few years later he tried to spin his statement and suggested he was just seeking to "light a fire under my ass" - the message was heard loud and clear. A message that put my proverbial horse into this race... and is largely why I started referring to myself as a liberal. The sad part is that when he said these things to me they were fairly uncommon and outrageous. As time passes more and more people seem comfortable with publicly stating such views.
It saddens me that we currently live in a society that seeks to openly embrace eugenics.
Originally posted by CB328
Any new party that grows and becomes a danger to the status of the two party system we have now will be demonized
The Tea party is demonized because it's full of rejects.
And you fail to adress the problems with those soultions.
1) Get a job? Well how can you do that when there are more people than jobs? And those in poverty cant get capital to start there own business?
2) Rely on chairity? Charity is unrelaible and there is no garentee that aid will reach those in need especialy since the most needed charitys like help for homeless and mentaly ill will own receive a fraction of funding like like help for children or save the cat
Originally posted by neo96
But then again I have no idea why someone who doesn't live in this country is even trying to argue with me over this.
San Diego beach bum Jason Greenslate has a front-row seat watching your tax dollars at work…mainly because that’s about all that’s breaking a sweat in his world
“Wake up, go down to the beach, hang out with my friends, hit on some chicks, start drinking,” Greenslate told John Roberts of Fox News for “The Great Food Stamp Binge” special Friday
Though he attended college and trained as a recording engineer, Greenslate prefers bunking rent-free in dwellings of his friends, family, and occasionally girlfriends, not holding a steady job, and jamming on some tunes while barbequing lobster and noshing on sushi “all paid for by our wonderful tax dollars.”
Originally posted by macman
Originally posted by neo96
But then again I have no idea why someone who doesn't live in this country is even trying to argue with me over this.
Because Misery Loves Company.
Originally posted by neo96
How About millions of Americans lower their standards about what a job is you know those 100 million on food aid.
Originally posted by neo96
Anyone telling me charity is inadequate is not telling the truth.
Originally posted by neo96
Charity was around long before the US government was ever an inkling in peoples eyes.
Originally posted by neo96
But then again I have no idea why someone who doesn't live in this country is even trying to argue with me over this.
Originally posted by Kali74
reply to post by Logarock
She was a liberal then and a liberal now... that isn't left.