"Janet Bostwick" > wrote in message
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> On Thu, 26 Dec 2013 12:07:54 -0500, Dave Smith
> > wrote:
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> I don't mind helping once in a while and I don't mind
>>spending money to buy things to be given out, but I draw the line at pet
>>food. If those people can't feed themselves they should not be taking on
>>the responsibility of a pet.
>>
> snip
> What follows is a rant:
> "these people?" What a nice, all-inclusive term of scorn.
> The homeless person and the dog on a rope are friends well met. The
> dog was homeless too. You would deny them both companionship to make
> life worth living?
> I just don't get the attitude that people down on their luck should
> demonstrate it in every way. You (a universal 'you') are against a
> higher minimum wage, you object to social services, you want to take
> away women's health care, you don't want to provide birth control
> measures, you begrudge phones, dogs, cigarettes, and other little
> treats. You would deny them the comfort of sex but force conception
> and babies on them but will not support the children. How should they
> live then? Covered with sores and flies and lying in a gutter in
> tattered clothes.? The short term money pinching and moralizing leads
> to people without jobs, with poor health, with unwanted babies.
> Economically it makes more sense to address the problems up front
> instead of hiring people to pick dead and diseased people from the
> gutters and bury them in a potters field.
> None of us are protected from disaster where starting over or
> beginning again is insurmountable. You just think you are.
> Janet US

Sadly there are some people who think that people who are poor, homeless,
stupid, etc., don't deserve anything.