Subj : Re: Um...no comment?
To   : Frank Reid
From : Mrproper
Date : Sat Sep 17 2005 09:02 am

  Re: Re: Um...no comment?
  By: Frank Reid to Frank on Sat Sep 17 2005 06:27:00

 >   Re: Re: Um...no comment?
 >   By: Frank to Frank Reid on Fri Sep 16 2005 22:27:00
 > 
 >  >    Spoken LIKE A TRUE ASSHOLE!
 > 
 > Thank you!
 > 
 > I'm actually a quite charitable person.  I'd be happy to give my tax dollars
 > the sick and needy, but we've diluted that group with the lazy and greedy to
 > the extent that it's impossible to feed them all.  Bush might need to be
 > politically correct in his efforts to regain standing in the popularity poll
 > but I don't.  One out of every three people bitching at the Superdome was on
 > government assistance... and I saw a LOT of able-bodied people there!  I saw
 > interview with one guy outside the Astrodome, calling the Red Cross a "scam"
 > and bitching because the debit card he had received earlier in the day ran o
 > after $700, and it was supposed to be $2,000.  The Red Cross itself was quot
 > as being "disgusted" by the number of people who were stealing their offerin
 > in bulk, and in quantities that could never be used for personal consumption
 > 
 > If you want to continue cultivating a sub-class of people in the country,
 > that's fine.  I guess it gives you some bleeding-heart cause to drive your
 > mini-van down to Houston and take in a poor family into your guest room.
 > However, I think we'd make better citizens of them by holding them accountab
 > for the choices they make rather than rewarding them with government subsidy
 > Our goal should be that everyone receives an education and learns a skill th
 > is of value to our society and, then, is held accountable for applying those
 > skills in our competitive marketplace.  You'd be surprised how the quality o
 > life improves when you feel like a contributing member of society!
 > 

and what does this have to do with the appalachian way of life you were
speaking of?

New Orleans is nowhere near appalachia.


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