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

To: redfish who wrote (108364)	9/18/2005 1:09:03 AM
From: Grainne	Respond to of 108807

Do you really think that all people are as competent and independent and intelligent and healthy as you are, redfish? It would be nice to think that they are, but I don't believe that is realty. So giving everyone $2000 seems like the least we can do, even if it won't go very far. My own feeling is that I cannot expect everyone to be as competent as I am, and having the money to help them, I should, because it is just the right thing to do. It is compassionate, in other words, and I try to be that. I was reading an opinion piece last week about some of the root causes of endemic Southern black poverty. The writer opined that promising freed slaves 40 acres and a mule and then not giving them these simple things to get started on the road to prosperity and independence is the basis of black poverty today. Certainly these would have been easy things to give, and our society might be much different now if we had done so.