Reply #7: Come On Bauer, Let's Take the Next Step

[iamjoy]

If you're so worried about poor people and think they are like stray animals, do you advocate taking the next step too? You know how most areas deal with stray animals, right? They round 'em up and euthanize the creatures. More enlightened areas round pick them up spay/neuter and then release. But I guess that wouldn't be Pro-Life, now would it? Instead we should just let them starve to death or die of illness.


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With all due respect, you're sounding like an idiot, Bauer. Many of the people on assistance do work - doing low paying jobs like housekeeping or in agriculture. They contribute to society by keeping the costs of the hotel rooms in Myrtle Beach and Hilton Head Island lower to bring tourists to your state and by keeping the cost of produce lower for everyone. We owe it to them. Those kids getting free lunch today will become contributing citizens in ten years, but they need help now. Maybe the reason their test scores are lower despite that free lunch is because it is their only meal of the day. Maybe the reason parents on aid are missing school conferences is because they work and their boss won't give them the time off (or won't give it to them with pay). You want people on assistance to pay back, well help them out of the hole first and maybe they will. As for drug tests - aside from any of the typical liberal concerns (privacy, prejudice, etc) do you really think a parent who is such a "loser" as to do drugs in the first place really has her child's best interests in mind? So you want the child to starve because the parent is a fool?

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