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To: Hawkmoon who wrote (87943)	5/4/2012 9:09:06 AM
From: Cautious_Optimist	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 89467

<<Teach a man to fish and you feed him for life (and likely his family as well.)>> Very true. and not funding public education well is the biggest threat, as is the special needs of the poor kids or those from dysfunctional families who are not on anything near a level playing field. It ends up costing us more as a society if we do nothing early. However there are short-term needs of people for food, shelter and health care, and we can't turn our backs. using emergency rooms as doctors offices is stupidly expensive; so is hunger. Conservatives are correct that there are abuses and people who are not motivated to leave public assistance who could; There are a few who "game" the system not unlike some businesses. And of course a percentage of people and businesses choose out-and-out crime, making calculated economic decisions based on the risks and rewards. Much of it is politics -- the left for individuals at the bottom and the GOP cigar smokers for old corporations on the forever government nipples. Labor unions are legal, and are certainly not motivating people not to work. Your story about your neighbor shows that you are a kind person, that has nothing to do with politics. We have both bailed out friends, I have probably unwittingly enabled a few alcoholics and cokeheads in order to help bring a percentage of them to soberness and life.. Addiction is a pedestal of much crime, the biggest threat to a community and families too-- and police and prosecutors are part of an economic enterprise that is the FUBARED apolitical "war on drugs."