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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!!
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To: Ilaine who wrote (36301)4/30/1999 12:48:00 AM
From: epicure  Read Replies (1) of 108807
 
No actually they couldn't provide for them. What is true is that society was not as bothered by squalid poverty as it is now. The evening news didn't go out and cover shanty towns and the homeless. If you do not believe this you need only look at pictures of the rural poor- both black and white, who were sharecroppers. Or talk to people living in the slums. My mother lived in a slum during the depression. There were no government handouts so she went hungry, she had no clothes and wore my grandmother's friends castoffs (which didn't fit her and gave her terrible problems. Since they had no money when she had a toothache she went to a dentist that pulled teeth without anesthesia.

Now I am no fountain of generosity. But I do think that baselines need to be maintained to assure the younger generations do not grow up retarded from poor nutrition, or crippled by bad health care. But my government aid comes at a price. I say if you cannot take care of yourself, and you throw yourself on the mercy of the State, then the State has rights over you it does not have over citizens who pay their own way. The State has the right to require you to improve yourself. It has the right to insist that you eat properly, by issuing you healthy foods instead of cash. It has the right to prevent you from conceiving children while you require assistance. JMO
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