> Well, my point was the irony of a fat guy, who's also an avid liberal > basher, blaming obesity on liberals. But let's talk about the points > you bring up:
I know he lost a lot of weight some time back (yes, the jokes could be made about pain killers and appetite loss, that's up to you) but from what I've seen as of late I'm more overweight than he is. > (1.) As I understand it, food stamps can be used to buy food - any food. Depends on the program. Food pantries (typically government subsidised but privately run) give out whatever they have on their own shelves. WIC is a program for women (and children) that only allows for certain things. Food stamps will only cover certain items from what I recall. Depends on the bureacracy running it (especially since those are run at the state level). > (2.) More importantly, even if they only buy potato chips Limbaugh > claims to push a conservative philosophy, a major tenant of which is > personal responsibility. He should be blaming the people, therefore, > not the government. To a real conservative (and he's only a fake one) > it's the people's fault, not the government's. He is saying that because poor people have gotten used to living on the government dole and based on what the article was saying, his translation of the article is that it is the government's fault. 'Course then again it doesn't matter what he or I say, he could say that a broken clock is right twice a day and you'd say that he's saying a clock isn't right 98% of the time. > So it's about choices. That is, personal responsibility. If > anything, Limbaugh should be criticizing education, but for a > conservative he should be criticizing people. My point on welfare is this: people will continue to be on welfare until the system is redesigned to push them into the workforce. Handing someone cheese, butter and bread from now until eternity is not the way to deal with public assistance. We do need better education and assistance that is geared towards putting people in jobs. Right now the systems that were created by liberals going back to FDR have done very little for the reeducation and/or placement of the unemployed. Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Introducing the Fusion Authority Quarterly Update. 80 pages of hard-hitting, up-to-date ColdFusion information by your peers, delivered to your door four times a year. http://www.fusionauthority.com/quarterly Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:214639 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
