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Driving, like homeownership IS NOT A RIGHT. You sound like you would be happier under communist rule. Have you looked into Cuba? Wacko M. Moore says they have a great healthcare system.
Actually no,having lived in a socialist lite society I find it stifles the human spirit.
The thing is your idea of humane may differ from others but you do not have a problem forcing you ideas upon everyone.
How about this,you simply donate your money to help the less fortunate,as there seem to be a few people who think like you you should be able to help quite a few.
I will do what I see fit and to the person I think deserves my help.
Charity can't be forced and neither should you force your version of humane behavior.
I'm broke (not looking for a "government handout," though, don't worry) but try to "give" when the opportunity arises... but there are many problems that are mitigated or solved best with a combination of collective and private action. If you leave everything to private charity, some people who need help will inevitably be "left out" as the resources are limited and the distribution scattershot... if the government gets involved then some people who don't really need help will get it, but I don't understand how some seem to prefer the former situation to the latter, like they're more concerned about "the undeserving poor" having too much than they are about the rest of them having too little, or less than they need to live a healthy life.
I'm broke (not looking for a "government handout," though, don't worry) but try to "give" when the opportunity arises... but there are many problems that are mitigated or solved best with a combination of collective and private action. If you leave everything to private charity, some people who need help will inevitably be "left out" as the resources are limited and the distribution scattershot... if the government gets involved then some people who don't really need help will get it, but I don't understand how some seem to prefer the former situation to the latter, like they're more concerned about "the undeserving poor" having too much than they are about the rest of them having too little, or less than they need to live a healthy life.
People will be left out no matter what.
The war on poverty has cost this nation trillions(with a T) of dollars and the result?
Why the same number of people living below the poverty level.
Perhaps it is time to call an end to this war,it is obviously a failure.
Let charity go back to where it belongs,as a private choice.
The poverty rate's about half of what it was when the "War on Poverty" started, although it's gone up from about 10% to around 12.5% since the Bush administration took the reins. Other countries have fought far more successful "wars on poverty..." As for how much it's cost the nation, the US spends less on social programs as a percentage of GDP than nearly every country in the industrialized world. And we have around the highest poverty rate. Coincidence?
That certainly isn't misleading, you know, the US population hasn't grown whatsoever in the past 40 years, has it? And where does the 8-10 trillion figure come from? What's the source of the statistics? Did it all go to the "poor" or does it include middle-class social spending like Medicare and Social Security?
But the object of the war on poverty was to eliminate the poverty stricken.
The number living in poverty GREW.
If you wish to use percentages, 22% of the pop. was below poverty level in 1960.
The figure was 12.7% in 2004.
DO you consider this a good investment of 8 TRILLION DOLLARS?
It might have simply been cheaper and maybe more effective to GIVE each poor person $100,000 back in 1960....
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