(May 11, 2014 at 11:00 am)Heywood Wrote:(May 11, 2014 at 10:11 am)Cato Wrote: I loathe these natural state arguments. Nothing in nature prevents me from killing someone and relieving them of their possessions. Your move.
A function of the state is to prevent you from doing that. If there is a entity responsible for preventing your from starving/freezing to death, it would be the state.
Since when has the state done it's job? Last I checked this is America land of the lazy, land of the ignorant, land of the cheap.
I was a homeless veteran for 3-years living out of an alley way behind a starbucks.
State wouldn't help, they kept pointing the finger at the Government, I'd go to the Government and they would tell me I am the state's problem.
One always points elsewhere and no one does what they are SUPPOSE to do.
All those "homeless shelters", "food pantry's" were a colossal joke.
When it comes down to it, your Employer, State, and Government will do the bare-bone-minimal to assist you if at all, and believe you me they will fight to the bitter end to not help.
I have been to 45 states in America, I have been to Canada, Germany, Costa Rica, and Afghanistan. Aside from Afghanistan I have to say I like america the absolute least. Bottom dollar land.
Only here can one work there butts off, slave away, and never get anything but bone minimum in a land of "opportunity"
