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To: tejek who wrote (318966)	1/6/2007 3:45:48 PM
From: Brumar89	Read Replies (2) of 1575758

This isn't a poor person; she's a con artist. I assure they are poor. Being a con artist doesn't disqualify from being poor. Poor people are as willing to run cons as anyone else. You think poor people are all a bunch of saints or something? He owns a house. How does that make him poor? It's his parents house he inherited a few yrs back. Its old and small. Lots of poor people own similar little houses. I did not have family who supported me and I would never ask a friend for help. My parents both died when I was young. My parents are still alive though they never supported me since my teens. Nor have I ever asked a friend for help. But some folks aren't as fortunate as you and I in that regard. Some people do get help from their familes and friends throughout life. Nothing wrong with that. Course if there's going to be a govt bureaucrat following everyone around making sure they are taken care of that will displace the aid of family and friends over time. You assume someone poor has family whose well off. Well that's not always the case. No, I don't assume that. And a family doesn't have to be well off to offer a place to sleep and bathe and meals and a ride to work and much much else. Of course, that's all possible but then one day you need to have your wisdom teeth taken out or you need a root canal or an appendectomy and you have no dental or medical insurance. What happens then? You can't ignore these things.......you will only get sicker. In that event I would use my insurance and if I didn't have it pay it all myself. Paying cash is harder for poor people but I know of a dentist who provides dental care for uninsured people all the time and takes payment over time. Course he also has a lawyer and regularly sues those who don't pay. The more you create a great liberal safety net, the more people there will be who will rely on it. And what's wrong with that? Why do people have to be stressed out all the time? No one...absolutely no one gains from living that way. There's a basic outlook here that I take issue with - the idea that everyone is basically helpless and needs a government social worker to protect them from the hardships of life. If people lose a job, they are doomed to live the rest of their short miserable suffering life sleeping under a bridge. So therefore we should have an army of those social workers to take care of everyone - making sure housing and food and healthcare - including dental and eyeglasses if they need them - is free. HAve I forgotten free cable and free internet access? The outlook you're pushing will, and has when its applied, erode people's self-reliance and make them shiftless dependents.

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