I live in the UK but the principle is the same. I have a good job, my wife has a better job, we don't have children. We pay a shedload of national and local taxes which go, in part, to schools, doctors, social workers, psychologists etc. for other people's children. I don't mind because I would rather have my city populated by educated, healthy, productive people than a sick, feral underclass.
Yeah it is sort of like how every time Milton Friedman's economic policies were put in place and failed, like clockwork someone would come along and argue it was because the government didn't follow the prescription closely enough. Magical thinking - not just for alcoholics and drug addicts anymore!
Go back to Russia, hippie! This is America, we don't need any of your European socialist ideas foisted on us by a bunch of uppity snobs. We'll get scurvy, and we'll LIKE it, damn it.
I know exactly what you mean. When I was in my late 20's and had worked really hard to buy a house. Then the city talked about breaking up all the public housing and housing those folks throughout the community. It was a good thing.
At 29 or 30, I was incensed about it. I worked very hard to get my house and extremely hard to keep it. Why should someone else get a 'free ride'? Then I fell on hard times myself, lost my house and understood. Really, really understood. They are me and I am them.
This "logic"' would cause him to blow an Apollonian Gasket.
Never has the non-word "ewwww" been more appropriately used.
No doubt at all.
"less than 10 times a year" you say?
Oh Ms Thasitfor, let's chat!
Mark 14:7, well the part about the Poors always being there, not the part about helping them. Obvs.
I live in the UK but the principle is the same. I have a good job, my wife has a better job, we don't have children. We pay a shedload of national and local taxes which go, in part, to schools, doctors, social workers, psychologists etc. for other people's children. I don't mind because I would rather have my city populated by educated, healthy, productive people than a sick, feral underclass.
That's all any of us can do.
Yeah it is sort of like how every time Milton Friedman's economic policies were put in place and failed, like clockwork someone would come along and argue it was because the government didn't follow the prescription closely enough. Magical thinking - not just for alcoholics and drug addicts anymore!
he's not a detail person... or quite human, either
yeah, the kind of stupid so disconnected from reality that would have to travel light-years to even approach simply wrong
Low n' slow, but what a thing of beauty.
We Tru 'Muricans are unimpressed at your attempts to sway us with logic, common sense and compassion. FREEDOM!!1!1
Go back to Russia, hippie! This is America, we don't need any of your European socialist ideas foisted on us by a bunch of uppity snobs. We'll get scurvy, and we'll LIKE it, damn it.
That needs a trigonometry warning!
And Msmig is doing so much better at seducing Wonkers than I am...
I know exactly what you mean. When I was in my late 20's and had worked really hard to buy a house. Then the city talked about breaking up all the public housing and housing those folks throughout the community. It was a good thing.
At 29 or 30, I was incensed about it. I worked very hard to get my house and extremely hard to keep it. Why should someone else get a 'free ride'? Then I fell on hard times myself, lost my house and understood. Really, really understood. They are me and I am them.