For the thousandth and first time, I was not likening you to Hitler, and it was only after you said that you saw it that way, that I decided to give you what you wanted and likened you to Goebbels and Eva, but if you are too much of a self-centered individual to believe what I said about not likening you to Hitler, then there is no point in me even responding to your posts.
Whatever. You jumped all over someone for using bad language about Palin, asking does not everyone deserve respect, which is just plain hypocritical, considering the crap you shoveled in my direction. Live by the sword, dle by the sword.
As far as the people that are poor, I didn't make them that way, it is not my fault they are in the condition they are in. I am not holding them back. At any time they want they can get off their asses and move forward. It is not my fault that they repeat the same mistakes over and over and over again.
Are children responsible for their miserable conditions? And others, the parents? At any time, they can get off their asses and what? Just change everything about themselves, their backgrounds, their teeth, appearance? You think it's just so easy. I bet that you are white, come from a nice middle class background, and so on. I bet your teeth look just fine, are not corroded from years of neglect. You're reasonably well spoken and educated.
You are also completely lacking in any way of empathy: the ability to try to imagine what things feel like for others. That's a very dangerous way to go through life. In fact, if you go check out the DSM-IV and look at some of the AXIS TWO disorders . . .. I'll let you figure that one out. Empathy is what allows human beings to be more than just beasts, scraping up every single little bit of meat for themselves and watching others die. It's also how some animal groups die out, as well as human beings. Recall the Ik people I told you about. Empathy is dead with them, and they will probably not survive.
With all that said, why do you keep on trying to make me pay for other's stupidity?
Your use of the word stupidity here reveals you for what you are. You think all poverty is caused by stupidity. Is the color of one's skin and one's parents caused by stupidity?
Who said I want you, personally, to pay for others, anyway? I think a few of us on this thread have been pretty vocal that the spending on utterly nonsensical things could go a long way toward getting those who can be saved out of poverty, so they too are CONTRIBUTING to society.
What is stupid, imo, is that there are so many who refuse to even acknowledge that helping people out of poverty will only enhance the culture as a whole. You like living near poverty? YOu probalby don't, and I know it's hard for someone who lacks empathy, but try to imagine what it might feel like to live near a poverty-stricken area. Imagine the crime. Think you'd enjoy that? Where there is poverty, there are lacking resources, and where you have that, you will have crime. So, the plot thickens: reduce poverty, reduce crime.
You cannot change human nature. Where there is poverty, there will be crime.
You can, however, be part of the solution and that is doing all we can rid ourselves of such a huge underclass, the poverty stricken. It will only HELP all of us.
As far as the country, being better if they were not poor...
See above.
How do you propose to ever bring that about, so far the only result of your idiotic ideology is making everyone equally poor.
One, I'm not an idiot, nor are my thoughts idiotic. You might disagree, but do it RESPECTFULLY, just like you insisted upon regarding Ms. Palin.
Why would this mean that everyone is equally poor? Just how did you arrive at this conclusion. You answer that, and I'll answer you. But for me to answer this question as you've worded it, would only make it appear that I am tacitly condoning your insinuating that I am idiotic and that everyone will be poor if we make more of an effort to rid ourselves of poverty.
One more note--not for Brutal, though.
I do believe that we've got a huge number of people, who due to the gleeful hatred of the last eight years--that fascism--actually like knowing that there are poverty stricken people out there. THey like knowing that someone else has it harder than they do. My gut feeling is that as long as someone else has it rougher and "we" can pile on the recriminations (they're stupid and make the same mistakes over and over again, etc, etc, ad nauseum), "we" can feel so much better about ourselves. IOW, these folks derive happiness and esteem out of knowing how hard life is for others. A very sad state of affairs, indeed.