RE: Complain less...
Do you think the Connor's that lived on 66 across from my grandparents had cable tv?
They didn't have cable TV or telephone because their granny didn't want it. They were/are poor because they're not inclined to be any other way. Some of them moved on to Winston-Salem and points beyond, got jobs (or not), and moved on with their lives. Some of them ended up in Central Prison. Some of them hang around their granny's trailer all day and sit out in the middle of the road at night. Their granny wouldn't take any welfare money out of pride. I don't think some of the others living there have that compunction.
So what's your point? They are what they are because that's what they choose to be. How did that become my problem, your problem, or more importantly, government's problem? Because they don't live like you think they should, does that give government the right to come pillage me to throw money at them?
Most of the people at the shelter on Patterson Avenue are alcoholics and/or crack-heads. They are homeless because they have addictions they can't control or exhibit behavior that precludes them from peacefully coexisting with family and friends. If you had ever talked to any of the people who work there or any of the cops who deliver people there, you would know that. Their circumstance has little or nothing to do with poverty and all the government assistance in the world won't help them.
Politicians put the poverty level where it is in order to broaden their power base and buy votes. Simple as that. The proof is in the fact that people will turn down work because they can make more money laying around the house, doing nothing. The government can't cure poverty any more than it can cure cancer. All the government can do is create a dependency on itself that tends to create more poverty. The government thinks money is like white paint: smear it on thick enough, and you won't be able to see those poor people any more.
They didn't have cable TV or telephone because their granny didn't want it. They were/are poor because they're not inclined to be any other way. Some of them moved on to Winston-Salem and points beyond, got jobs (or not), and moved on with their lives. Some of them ended up in Central Prison. Some of them hang around their granny's trailer all day and sit out in the middle of the road at night. Their granny wouldn't take any welfare money out of pride. I don't think some of the others living there have that compunction.
So what's your point? They are what they are because that's what they choose to be. How did that become my problem, your problem, or more importantly, government's problem? Because they don't live like you think they should, does that give government the right to come pillage me to throw money at them?
Most of the people at the shelter on Patterson Avenue are alcoholics and/or crack-heads. They are homeless because they have addictions they can't control or exhibit behavior that precludes them from peacefully coexisting with family and friends. If you had ever talked to any of the people who work there or any of the cops who deliver people there, you would know that. Their circumstance has little or nothing to do with poverty and all the government assistance in the world won't help them.
Politicians put the poverty level where it is in order to broaden their power base and buy votes. Simple as that. The proof is in the fact that people will turn down work because they can make more money laying around the house, doing nothing. The government can't cure poverty any more than it can cure cancer. All the government can do is create a dependency on itself that tends to create more poverty. The government thinks money is like white paint: smear it on thick enough, and you won't be able to see those poor people any more.
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