(April 11, 2012 at 4:50 pm)JohnDG Wrote: You see it everyday, you just refuse to beleive it. Sorry but for you to have money, somebody must not. For you to have allot of money, well thats when it starts to get comical.That's not physics.
You're speaking of a form of Supply and Demand that is zero-sum based.
(April 11, 2012 at 4:50 pm)JohnDG Wrote: I live in Lancaster California and my little town is doing ok on the outside. But a few miles away there is a large population of homless families growing and im talking about entire families. I don't have very much money, infact I don't even own a computer or a phone. But I still go out and give these people food because their children should not be growing up in a tent like its fu**ing normal.
Then lobby for higher taxes, better welfare, better welfare verification. Lobby for education and outreach to disaffected communities.
Oh wait, this is America, right?
Then expect to be called a Communist, etc for trying to apply the Sweden/Finland/Norway safety nets.
(April 11, 2012 at 4:50 pm)JohnDG Wrote: There is a underclass here in america, shanty towns are illegal but if you do a little research. America is the only country that does not have shanty towns and thats because we refuse to let the homeless (people) have homes.
By the way, they are still people.
Not according to the Just World View, which I would argue that is a prevailing world view of conservatives in America and justified through Mather's work "The American Puritan" and Alexis De Tocqueville's "Democracy in America".
REF: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Just-world_hypothesis
As long as people believe in this shit, they will always fall into the fallacy that the poor, etc are to blame for being poor.
The poor may be wretched and that may be solely their own, but their economic plight, like in the Scandinavian countries, can be assuaged to basic human rights levels. But only when the peers of the poor choose to act for someone other than themselves.
Slave to the Patriarchy no more