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Why should my hard earned money go to those less fortunate?
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People seem to think government assistance is sustainable as a living, that you can just collect and not work. That you can just sit around and have enough to survive.
If The Flintstones have taught us anything, it's that pelicans can be used to mix cement.
-Homer Simpson 
Do they? It really is a shitty existence. There are probably people who are too unmotivated to try to improve their situation, but I would think that most people keep plugging away in the hopes of getting out of that mess.
"Well, evolution is a theory. It is also a fact. And facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts don't go away when scientists debate rival theories to explain them. Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's in this century, but apples didn't suspend themselves in midair, pending the outcome. And humans evolved from ape- like ancestors whether they did so by Darwin's proposed mechanism or by some other yet to be discovered."
-Stephen Jay Gould 
I think she means something like, "CRITICS seem to think ..." etc.
I'm reading about the early Gnostic Christians.
With some interesting twists, they seem to think the other Christians have pretty much everything backwards. Haven't found anything explicit about charity, but some of them think highly of Cain. Not sure how the poor would fare under a predominantly Gnostic based America . . . The granting of a pardon is an imputation of guilt, and the acceptance a confession of it.
In Mississippi, TANF is $171/month. If there is anyone who thinks that's a preferable lifestyle to literally any part time job, they're crazy.
"There remain four irreducible objections to religious faith: that it wholly misrepresents the origins of man and the cosmos, that because of this original error it manages to combine the maximum servility with the maximum of solipsism, that it is both the result and the cause of dangerous sexual repression, and that it is ultimately grounded on wish-thinking." ~Christopher Hitchens, god is not Great
PM me your email address to join the Slack chat! I'll give you a taco(or five) if you join! --->There's an app and everything!<--- (December 11, 2016 at 11:28 pm)SteelCurtain Wrote: In Mississippi, TANF is $171/month. If there is anyone who thinks that's a preferable lifestyle to literally any part time job, they're crazy. They'd have to pay me at least that much per diem to stay in that shithole. 
The republicunts will shit bricks over this idea.
http://www.nbcnews.com/mach/technology/u...re-n692801 Quote:Is Universal Basic Income the Answer to an Automated Future? Quote:Smart people predicted that the machines would start to catch up to us; economist John Maynard Keynes wrote in 1930 that the eventual obsolescence of human work will be due to a society's "means of economizing the use of labor outrunning the pace at which [it] can find new uses for labor." Of course we will continue to need welfare - how else will the proles buy their Soylent Green?
I've been saying this for a while now. Being in the auto manufacturing business and seeing automation and modularization take 2/3 of the jobs away from a machining line, we're headed down this path like a locomotive. It is inevitable---tablets instead of waiters/waitresses, touch screens/self checkout instead of cashiers, automated pack/fill at fulfillment centers, self driving vehicles---the service industry is going to take a hit next, and we're going to have a massive unemployment problem for which there is no solution.
"There remain four irreducible objections to religious faith: that it wholly misrepresents the origins of man and the cosmos, that because of this original error it manages to combine the maximum servility with the maximum of solipsism, that it is both the result and the cause of dangerous sexual repression, and that it is ultimately grounded on wish-thinking." ~Christopher Hitchens, god is not Great
PM me your email address to join the Slack chat! I'll give you a taco(or five) if you join! --->There's an app and everything!<---
You're reckoning without this idiot.
![[Image: 1245034ba47d60ac01929be772aa751b.jpg]](https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/236x/12/45/03/1245034ba47d60ac01929be772aa751b.jpg) He thinks his fellow corporate scumbag pals will gladly create jobs to help him out no matter how much it costs them.  RE: Why should my hard earned money go to those less fortunate?
December 12, 2016 at 12:07 am
(This post was last modified: December 12, 2016 at 12:19 am by Amarok.)
(December 11, 2016 at 11:58 am)Loading Please Wait Wrote:(December 11, 2016 at 2:42 am)Iroscato Wrote: Oh, and heaven forbid poor people buy things that might bring them some enjoyment and pleasure. So what...because they currently lack employment, they shouldn't be allowed to eat steak as and when their meagre budgets can stretch to it? You wouldn't be so holier then thou if it were you (December 11, 2016 at 8:54 am)LadyForCamus Wrote:(December 11, 2016 at 2:51 am)SteelCurtain Wrote: But you don't understand, Iro. He saw some of them buying seafood. indeed how dare they eat good food and not eat cheap crap full of chemicals and preservatives and no doubt packed with salt how dare they care about there well being I dare this jerk to go into a poor household look there children in the eye and say your deserve substandard unhealthy food and life of misery and hardship because wanna keep my money and you deserve to be punished because someone else cheated the system
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