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To: robert a belfer who wrote (441440)	8/19/2011 2:58:05 AM
From: KLP	2 Recommendations Respond to of 794101

I think I understand what you are saying.....but there comes a time, that after society has -- in so many cases -- fed, clothed, sheltered, educated (or tried to) and even paid people(welfare, foodstamps, medical assistance, and so many etcs) ....that eventually, these people MUST pick themselves out of the gutter of whatever dispair they have decided was their lot in life... What would happen to these people if they were in ANY other country in the world....????? I'm not talking about people who are disabled, mentally or physically. I'm talking about the ones who continually act as a sponge, and some who even have the audacity to rob, rape, destroy anything in their way, even after the help that society in general has given them. THOSE are the people I call "lazy louts".....There comes a time that as a taxpayer, I've wished I could transfer the money I might have spent on this group of folks to children with handicaps of some sort that had the potential to make something of themselves. Read Clarence Thomas's book "My Grandfather's Son"....if you haven't already. He could easily have fallen into the trap of some of those I mentioned above. He didn't. Is strength of character the difference? Edit....WOW....if we pay attention to little things like interesting grub numbers, CONGRATS LB on this Politics for Pros thread! Grub.

To: robert a belfer who wrote (441440)	8/19/2011 8:57:41 AM
From: Geoff Altman	5 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 794101

I was a Navy recruiter in metro Detroit in the early "90s. The culture they are raised in is toxic.* The kids just do not know what they do not know.* So true. One of my jobs as Command Safety PO for a squadron was screening and indoctrinating new squadron members. Some of the most difficult people to deal with were raised on the plantation of the inner city. Many of them came with a huge chip on their shoulder, looking for prejudice everywhere..... I was only too glad to be the first one to knock the chip off..... In most cases, once they found out that they weren't going to be treated any differently than anyone else and that they were in the same boat as everyone else, they'd adjust their attitudes accordingly and integrate into the shop they were being assigned.