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To: Terry Maloney who wrote (417505)9/7/2011 5:29:11 PM
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I agree completely with the CNN piece, in fact I wrote something very similar

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He nails the problem exactly right. I am not for starving people I am for making their lives more meaningful.

he says..

We start by accepting that food and shelter are basic human rights. The work we do -- the value we create -- is for the rest of what we want: the stuff that makes life fun, meaningful, and purposeful


My only change would be that the stuff that makes life fun, meaningful and purposeful, the work we do, the value we create should also be given in exchange for that food and shelter as well. People used to get themselves off welfare because they were ashamed and there was a stigma attached. Today after generations of welfare recipients there is no desire to get off welfare and their fun meaningful life, the value they create is drugs and crime. Not all, but that is the path unless we change the way the basic human rights are distributed.
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