sealybobo
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- Jun 5, 2008
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Class warfare has been waged on the middle class. The gap between the rich and poor has widened because of it.There is no dignity in begging for handouts. Dignity comes from being part of a society where people work for the common good. I realise that is anathema to conservatives who would inflict their Victorian values on the rest of us.
I think a big problem here is that you don't understand what dignity actually is. You seem to think it means "feeling good about yourself and never having to feel uncomfortable about anything." It doesn't.
And I strongly challenge your notion that sending the government to take other people's money and give it to you so that you never have to face them yourself or, God forbid, feel ashamed or grateful, is not at all being a part of society, and certainly does not make you one of the people working for any good at all. It makes you a leech, sucking off the lifeforce of those who are working and weighing them down. You SHOULDN'T feel any sense of dignity or comfort with yourself under those circumstances.
I realize any sort of values that actually involve becoming better people is anathema to leftists, who would inflict their greed and self-centeredness on the rest of us. Your half-assed, mistaken notions of charity are exactly the cause of most - if not all - of what is wrong with the world today.
Only 39% of Americans have enough savings to cover a $1,000 emergency
61% of Americans are $1001 from losing their dignity
That's not the problem of the rest of us that can cover it nor does it make it our responsibility because those 61% didn't prepare.
Maybe we the people need to unionize and vote for liberals. Then we would make the poor your problem.
Are you saying the poor are in the middle class? Doesn't change the fact that it doesn't become one group's responsibility because the other didn't prepare.
You claim to care about the poor yet, as a Liberal, demand others do something about helping them. So typical. But you claimed to care as claiming is all a Liberal needs to do to feel good about him/herself.
Actually you have that ass backwards. You don't like government helping the poor because it doesn't make you feel good. You want to pull out your purse and decide how many shillings you give to the poor. You don't want our government to take care because you have no control over it.
I don't demand. If we as a society don't want to give food stamps I'm ok with that. Then maybe more poor women will get abortions. Lower the population. Always a good thing. Less humans sucking up all the oxygen and natural resources
Humanity Has Officially Consumed More Than Earth Can Produce This Year