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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: SiouxPal who wrote (95647)	2/5/2005 9:20:49 PM
From: Grainne	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 108807

Sioux, you are asking the wrong person if being perceived as a bleeding heart liberal is a bad thing. It certainly is not a bad thing to me. It shows heart, compassion, concern and a high level of consciousness. Bleeding heart liberals have excellent karma, and they sleep well because they are at peace with themselves! ;-) At the same time, I think some of the bleeding heart liberal ideas that meant well, like Lyndon Johnson's welfare state, may have gone overboard in compassion without providing enough incentive for the poor to change their lives. But they need tools to do that--drug treatment on demand, training programs to be good parents, excellent preschool education for their children to catch up, food benefits so babies and children don't go hungry, and really high quality schools. Also better role models. Sports stars and drug dealers are not the kind of people any children should be copying. Communities where the poor are integrated into all neighborhoods instead of being concentrated in ghettos offer a wider variety of people for these poor children to emulate. I do think a failing of the Great Society was creating a welfare state where young teenaged girls could set up their own households on the benefits the government provided once they got pregnant. I think that was an incentive that encourages single parenthood, and children from poor, single family households are our most vulnerable and least likely to succeed.