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Originally posted by Frank the Tank@May 19 2005, 12:25 PM
How am I a hypocrite? I contribute, people who milk the system do not. I am not bitching about my mortgage one bit. I am happy to pay it every two weeks. Why? Because when I am done, I will own a home.
Don't tax me (the upper-middle class) to the balls when every month when the welfare cheques go out, the first thing is a cab ride to the beer store and a cab ride home.
I have no time for prople who don't contribute to society because in the end, the hard-working people in this world suffer because of them.
I suggest you read some Ayn Rand before you start flinging insults around.
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I'm calling you a hypocrite because you have no problem paying the banks your hard-earned dough, but have a major problem paying the government your hard-earned dough. What's the difference?
Banks: in the end you get a house.
Government: you get a standing army (sort of), roads, regulation, organized international blah blah blah, trash pickup, water, cleanliness, all those kinds of things. As far as welfare itself goes, you get to live in clean city with very, VERY few derelicts hassling you on the street for change. Move to Rio maybe, and then tell me you still have a problem with supporting the poor. In fact, I'd hazard a guess that the reason you are so detached and apathetic towards the plight of the poor is because we in Calgary just do not have to deal with that problem.
I think you are making a major miscalculation in assuming that all people on welfare are just lazy drunks. Again, I think this speaks to the ignorance living in such an affluent city generates. Most of the world's poor
do not and have never had the opportunity to "make something of themselves" and to "contribute". They lack education and opportunity.
But you don't care. You want a new TV. I understand.
(Hey, I bet those rich bank executives and stockholders have pretty frickin nice TVs. They probably have several. Where's the screaming of injustice here? Again: hypocrite.)
Edit: I see you don't in fact live in Calgary. My mistake. Even across Canada, however, our "poor" are small in number and have a much higher standard of living than the vast majority of the world's poor, thanks to the -- ahem -- generous donations of the kindly Canadian people such as yourself.