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Politics : A Neutral Corner
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To: Rambi who wrote (88)9/13/2005 11:56:41 AM
From: Mary Cluney  Read Replies (2) of 2253
 
I know I am horribly non-pc- and that this is an extreme proposition- but my work as a social worker years ago left me very negative about much of our system and that opinion hasn't improved over the years. When something continues to fail, it makes no sense not to try at least experimentally- some new, even radical approaches.

sometimes when you are deep into it, you can't see the forest because there are trees in the way.

Silmilarly, as a social worker, you couldn't get an overall perspective of things because you had an endless number of poor people in front of you that you are trying to help. You may have been forever colored by that situation.

Of course there are people on each extreme. There are those that would want to even out everything now. Allow everyone to have what everyone else has to even things up. Of course there are people on the other extreme. This is a dog eat dog world, if you can't hack it - too bad.

The truth is of course obvious. It has to be somewhere in between. The only question is where do we draw the line. I only hope the line is not drawn anywhere near as to how we airlift food and water to people stranded in a natural catastrophe because they didn't have the means, knowledge, or social skills to get out when they were told.
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