[Vision2020] Fw: A $50 Lesson

[lfalen]

I have always supported taking care of the mentally ill, the handicapped and our veterans. I do not thing we do enough for the veterans.  Anyone can be unemployed for a short period of time. I have been there too. I fully support Workmen's Compensation and short term welfare assistance. I also donate to private charities that work in these areas. What I object to is the long term payouts to the unemployed. Some where there needs to an end to it. There are jobs available if one is willing to work. It may not be the best job or pay much, but any job is better that no job. It you get paid $8.00/hr. that is $320.00/wk. That will pay a few bills. I have done that and it is better than nothing.
Roger
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From: "Saundra Lund" v2020 at ssl1.fastmail.fm
Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2011 12:23:17 -0800
To: "'lfalen'" lfalen at turbonet.com, vision2020 at moscow.com
Subject: RE: [Vision2020] Fw: A $50 Lesson

> And, of course, attitudes like that are precisely why the intelligent among us refuse to "trust" that local charity, as advocated by the Unthinking Right, tea baggers, and some so-called Christians is sufficient, and we demand instead a safety net not dependent on the generosity of people like you for the least amongst us.
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> Because more likely than not, that "homeless" guy is a war veteran with invisible injuries.  Or has a heart or other physical condition that makes it impossible for him to do physical labor without the medical care he needs but doesn't have access to  because he manages to make $3000 a year in Idaho, which makes him ineligible for Medicaid.  Or he suffers from clinical depression or some other mental illness worsened by morons who refuse to hire him for jobs he can do because he's "mental" and who think that he should pull himself up by his bootstraps which is impossible to do when barefoot.  Or he's 75 years old & homeless because his pension plan was raided by greedy people -- like those on the Unthinking Right -- who care only about feathering their own nests rather than having character, which is epidemic in this country now.  Or a thousand other scenarios which the Unthinking Right never thinks about yet finds appropriate to make the butts of moronic jokes like this.
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> Funny, huh, how what you thought was a joke speaks a lot more about those who relish retelling it -- that would be you, Roger -- than it does about political parties or disadvantaged individuals because fortunately for this nation, not ALL Republicans belong to the Unthinking Right.
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> Thanks, though, for yet another example I can use when presented with "Trust us . . . we'll take care of the needy in our community, so it's safe to gut government social services to get rid of all that waste."
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> From: vision2020-bounces at moscow.com [mailto:vision2020-bounces at moscow.com] On Behalf Of lfalen
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> From: louiseklink at peoplepc.com
> Date: Wed, 09 Feb 2011 23:47:34 -0800
> To: "\(R\) Mae Spring" spring4sparkey at yahoo.com
> Subject: A $50 Lesson
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