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Re: a dumb query? pls humor me



On Tue, Mar 06, 2007 at 01:42:08AM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote:
> Roberto C. Sanchez wrote:
> 
> >> 
> > As has already been said, if a poor person is still poor despite working
> > hard, then it is nearly always because of bad decisions.  I suppose that
> > you think that the government should just be making everyone's decisions
> > for them so that all the decisions that are made are "good".
> 
> Go read Freddy Freeloader's post about extraordinary circumstances, and
> remember it can happen to anyone.
> 
Now, *you* go back and read it and remember that it is *by far* the
exception and not the rule.  The vast majority of people in poverty are
perfectly healthy and able to work, but *choose* not to.  My heart goes
out to people like Freddy, and his situation is unfortunate, but using
the legitimate situation of a few people to legitimize a whole group of
people who refuse to do for themselves or otherwise choose not to is
completely unfair to people like Freddy.

Regards,

-Roberto

-- 
Roberto C. Sanchez
http://people.connexer.com/~roberto
http://www.connexer.com

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