Just because one person is poor, he has a right to take from someone else?
And we through that term "Poor" around too easily here. Census reports tell us that the "Poor" in America have at least one car, two color tv's, cable, and cell phones. They also receive food stamps. And a very sizable portion of these "Poor" are obese, which means they are obviously eating well, too well. Just because we don't live as well as someone else doesn't mean, to me, that a person is necessarily poor. The pop culture media tries to make us feel that way by showing us how well some of the super-rich live. Why do you think they do that? Might they have an agenda of their own?
I am pretty close to being classified poor, if you go by my income. But I also donate my time charitably by volunteering at a free meal church in downtown Indianapolis once a month. I give to my church, and the Muscular Distrophy Association every Labor Day, and I buy Girl Scout cookies, even though I don't want them.
The bottom line is that we are all responsible for ourselves, no one else is responisble for me. I, and millions of others, want to and do help those less fortunate. But those same people have a responsibility of their own, to provide for themselves. Ben Franklin said it best: "The poor should be made to feel uncomfortable in their poverty, so that they might lift themselves out of it". Work another job, or two. Don't buy cigarettes or liquor, or drugs. Don't eat too much food. Grow some of your own food. Don't buy fast food, which is actually expensive. A whole family could eat well for the cost of a quarter pouder meal. But you see people that you think are poor at McDonalds everyday, don't you?
I, and other "Repugs", want to help those that truly cannot help themselves. The truly indigent, and the mentally and physically handicapped. But far too many "poor" people have been led to believe they cannot do for themselves, and that's just not true. You might not be able to live the lifestyle of the rich and famous, but who can? Look at the immigrants that have come to this country. They arrived with nothing, truly poor. But they worked hard, worked multiple jobs, got thier children good educations and their families prospered. No one was telling them they couldn't do it. And, maybe more importantly, no one was doing it for them, making them become dependent. Today we push dependence on people until generation after generation believes that it's true, they can't do it. And that's the saddest thing of all.
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