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<blockquote data-quote="Jaydublin" data-source="post: 443496" data-attributes="member: 3304"><p>"The best way to help the poor is to make them uncomfortable in their poverty" Thomas Jefferson </p><p></p><p>I truly believe this. I know too many people living off the government who are incredibly intelligent and creative people. The problem is that they are comfortable and there are more people being made comfortable every day. I see them as the victims to the welfare system. Most people living in that system ARE capable of being productive citizens.</p><p></p><p>I became comfortable on unemployment years ago and I maxed it out... Within the first 3 weeks of it ending I had TWO six figure job offers. </p><p></p><p> Also, we would be amazed at how people would step up to help others when there isn't a 3rd party(government) already doing it, whatever the situation might be, not only handing out money. I feel like this is partly why we have no community anymore. Not to mention that by letting people become comfortable in poverty we are creating incentives for it. Handing out money to people doesn't do any good in the long term.</p><p></p><p>An example of 3rd party help is once I saw a house on fire, it was not bad yet and there were at least 10 men watching this fire grow from basically nothing... They just watched it like it was a fuckin football game while making sure 9/11 had been called of course and waited 10 minutes while the Fire Dept. arrived and 1/4 the house was in flames. Go back a few decades and every man there would have been doing all he could to put the fire out. Things have changed and having the 3rd party take care of everything let's us feel comfortable ignoring our responsibilities in the community.(just an example, not saying I don't support government paid for Fire Dept..... thats another debate)</p><p></p><p>People should not feel comfortable living off others. It is as simple as that.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Jaydublin, post: 443496, member: 3304"] "The best way to help the poor is to make them uncomfortable in their poverty" Thomas Jefferson I truly believe this. I know too many people living off the government who are incredibly intelligent and creative people. The problem is that they are comfortable and there are more people being made comfortable every day. I see them as the victims to the welfare system. Most people living in that system ARE capable of being productive citizens. I became comfortable on unemployment years ago and I maxed it out... Within the first 3 weeks of it ending I had TWO six figure job offers. Also, we would be amazed at how people would step up to help others when there isn't a 3rd party(government) already doing it, whatever the situation might be, not only handing out money. I feel like this is partly why we have no community anymore. Not to mention that by letting people become comfortable in poverty we are creating incentives for it. Handing out money to people doesn't do any good in the long term. An example of 3rd party help is once I saw a house on fire, it was not bad yet and there were at least 10 men watching this fire grow from basically nothing... They just watched it like it was a fuckin football game while making sure 9/11 had been called of course and waited 10 minutes while the Fire Dept. arrived and 1/4 the house was in flames. Go back a few decades and every man there would have been doing all he could to put the fire out. Things have changed and having the 3rd party take care of everything let's us feel comfortable ignoring our responsibilities in the community.(just an example, not saying I don't support government paid for Fire Dept..... thats another debate) People should not feel comfortable living off others. It is as simple as that. [/QUOTE]
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