Re: MSNBC (Oberg) - Deadly space lessons go unheeded

From: Fred J. McCall (fmccall_at_earthlink.net)
Date: 01/30/05 

Date: Sun, 30 Jan 2005 03:51:11 GMT

JazzMan <No_Spam@airmail.net> wrote:

:Jim Oberg wrote:
:>
:> "JazzMan" <No_Spam@airmail.net> wrote
:> > I challenge all you allegedly intelligent people here to sit
:> > down and write out a simple budget using real world numbers
:> > and show proof that someone making minimum wage can afford
:> > health insurance and live a minimal life out of the rain on
:> > at least 1,600 calories a day. Electricity, phone, entertainment,
:> > and education costs extra, of course.
:>
:> So if a person's labor is only commercially valued at (or below)
:> the 'minimum wage', what's the solution -- take some of my money
:> and give it to them?
:
:Of course not, stop trying to oversimplify this into something
:that it's not, you moron. You do what it takes to keep them from
:starving in the street, you do what it takes to help them help
:themselves. Contrary to your mentally retarded view on the real
:world, most people living in poverty have excellent work ethics
:and only need a little help to jumpstart their own personal
:success. Help them go to school, help them to overcome the bad
:luck and greed on the part of others that got them there in the
:first place.

And 'do what it takes' implies taking how much money from those who DO
produce goods and services to give it to those who DO NOT produce?

:Mental midgets like you would have children starving in the
:streets because of your personal greed and avarice. In fact,
:I would go so far as to call people like you true psychopaths.

Of course you would. What's your income and how much of it do YOU
give away?

:Every society that's had extreme polarization of wealth has
:fallen to revolution and civil war, every single one. If you
:think we're any different, that you can build a wall big
:enough to protect you when that fall happens here, you are
:seriously deluded.

And if you think we have "extreme polarization of wealth" here, you're
well beyond merely deluded. 

-- 
"Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the
 truth who believes nothing than he who believes what is wrong."
                               -- Thomas Jefferson

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