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To: Ilaine who wrote (79)9/27/2000 10:55:08 PM
From: GraceZRead Replies (1) of 24758
 
Just ask yourself whether the government knows what you need better than you do

When I was 9 years old and a ward of the state I'd say yes that the government had a better idea of what it was that I needed than I did (although they were less than perfect in providing it). The same could have been said about the government when I was 15 years old and a teenage runaway, I didn't like it at the time, but they thought I should be back in school.

Now that I'm 46 I think I have a pretty good grasp of where I should be, what I should be doing and where I want my money to go, but I've known some 46 year old schizophrenics and retarded adults that clearly don't have a good grasp of those essentials.

I don't mean to be contentious. I know that before the government took on the duty of making sure parentless children were fed and clothed there was a solution. Some of them went to work homes and others went to churches and well meaning families. I'm sure everyone pitched in to care for parentless children and the mentally ill before the government, maybe like they do in India, Africa and Brazil. (Sorry, these things just pop out sometimes)

Those were some of the problems I was talking about when I said I didn't have a better solution for them and I don't know if the government solution is the best. Show me a place in the world that deals with these problems well without government intervention. I work for any number of private non-profit organizations and these organizations do some wonderful things but as a lawyer you would understand that there has to be a limit to what power they might have to intervene in a family situation with children at risk. There is no easy answer. I'm most certainly not in favor of the big welfare state any more than I'm in favor of leaving it up to the capitalist process to resolve these issues.

As Ah is always pointing out, it's about making munnee....what does that have to do with a homeless kid or two?
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