Ideally we shouldn't give them money to spend on drugs. You've seen drug addiction before though Scott, you should know how difficult it can be to ditch addiction even in the best of circumstances. And many of the folks we are talking about here are not in the best of circumstances. So, where do we draw the line? The social and financial cost of having broken, failed families is very very high. They aren't putting out a bunch of happy, healthy, educated, productive, tax paying citizens. When do we give up on people and say no more? Morality aside, what is the tipping point for investment in people?
I agree that we need safeguards to prevent the worst abuse of the systems. I've seen stupid, bad people in my day and I mean that honestly. Waste of space people. But I've seen a hell of a lot more people that can potentially be helped. A lot of those people aren't going to be easy to help though. There is no magic silver bullet for dealing with poverty, drug addiction, poor environment, etc. I don't know of any programs where you can say "if you've failed this twice you are hopeless because you are lazy and stupid". But that's where we have to be drawing lines. Judah On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 4:20 PM, Scott Stroz <[email protected]> wrote: > > I am not saying we need to be their mommy and daddy, but if we are just > going to give them money, shouln't we make sure they are not spending it on > drugs? > > On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 5:29 PM, Cameron Childress <[email protected]>wrote: > >> >> On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 3:43 PM, Scott Stroz <[email protected]> wrote: >> > I agree, but if our tax dollars are going to be given to someone, maybe >> its >> > not too much to ask that they don't do drugs, or engage in other illegal >> > activity. >> >> That's the least an irresponsible teen's mommy and daddy would want, >> even though the government shouldn't be that teen's mommy and daddy. >> >> -Cameron >> >> > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;207172674;29440083;f Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:290690 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
