Judha, That is exactly why I am torn.
On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 7:58 PM, Judah McAuley <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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:290705 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
