What you provided was charity, and doesn't honestly have a place in this conversation. Charity is based on choice. You opt in. You choose to give.
Welfare is based on force, I am forced to pay a certain amount of my income into welfare. See the difference? Tim > -----Original Message----- > From: Cameron Childress [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Sunday, January 29, 2006 2:07 AM > To: CF-Community > Subject: Re: CF-Comm Welfare Invitational > > > Being from Atlanta, this part of the thread's got my interest... I > grew up in suburban Atlanta, an area on the border of the town of > Tucker and Stone Mountain. > > While I was in my teens, the church my family attended did a "Caring > Tree" project every Christmas. It's your standard "every ornament has > a family on it" thing and people in the church pick a family or three > and buy gifts for them. Everyone brings the gifts in and they end up > magically being whisked off and going to the needy families and > everyone gets warm fuzzies. > > One year I also helped deliver the gifts and it was one of the most > eye opening experiences I've ever had. > > I helped deliver gifts to single moms who cried when we arrived with > "santa's gifts" for their kids. I helped deliver gifts to people who > were embarrassed that they needed help and thankful at the same time. > I even ended up at the homes of people I went to school with - > something that blew me away at the time. These people needed help, > and were generally good people who wanted to get out of the situation > they were in. They were thankful for the safety net we provided them. > > I also helped deliver gifts to thankless parents with tons of kids > overrunning their home. Some people didn't even get off their sofa > when we arrived, stuffing their face with cheetos while directing us > where to set down their gifts. These are the people who don't deserve > to be on welfare, and these are the people who need to get their asses > kicked. > > We just need to differentiate between the people who need the safety > net while we are kicking lazy people's asses (and there were ALOT of > lazy people). > > -Cameron > > On 1/28/06, Maureen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Yes, rural georgia. Although parts of the city have clusters > of them too > > > > On 1/28/06, dana tierney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I need to go. But what I was wondering was -- we are talkng > someplace rural, yes? Not Atlanta? > > > > > > Dana > > > > > > > Nah, they won't work. I can't even get them to come over and clean > > > > my > > > > house for good wages. They just want hand-outs. I've even bought > > > > birth control pills and condoms for them, only to have them turn up > > > > pregnant again a few months later. Total lack of any sense of > > > > self-worth or responsibility. But they can always find a > ride to the > > > > nail salon or the mall on check day, or how to score some rock for > > > > their hump buddies. Waste of air. And yes, I'm bitter about it. > > > > > > > > Middle Georgia is just north of the gnat line and just south of Plum > > > > Nearly. You drive south til you smell it, then walk east til you > > > > step > > > > in it. > > > > > > > > On 1/28/06, dana tierney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > don't know a thing about middle Georgia or your cousin, so I can't > > > > speak to the choices available to those women. I suspect a > lot of them > > > > wouldn't mind a break from their screaming rug rats and > would be glad > > > > to work to get it ;) Where is middle Georgia anyway, > > > LOL? > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:5:194971 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/5 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:5 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
