ClimateSanity
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We are not a democracy. What you just described is the basis for governance in North Korea.
We are a republic.
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We are a republic.
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ClimateSanity
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By the time you have to bail them out or employ them, most of the things a family can do should already have been done. I wasn't thinking of the family as a safety valve which is also what they can do.Arthur Brain said:
Many people in our social safety network did not have the type of family that is most effective at producing happy productive members of society.
A loving responsible father is absolutely essential for this type of family.
But even after children have started their own families, the original family can do many things to get them back on their feet and prevent them from becoming part of the social safety net.
Women and children can be provided for while the father can seek employment nationwide or even worldwide if he has skills. Tying yourself down to one locale is what prevents families from having the best possible job available or even a decent paying job.
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Arthur Brain
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Where are you pulling that figure from? Even if you were just applying that to those capable of working it wouldn't add up. Lots of people find themselves out of work at some point and rely on benefits to subsist in the interim so where are you getting this from?
Thanks for encapsulating what's wrong with the Republican party and has been for a very long time. Horribly skewed priorities.
Speaking of which, did you hear the one about the president who wanted to invest in building up the strongest military on earth while cutting head start programs for underprivileged kids and meals on wheels for the elderly?
I hear it's all the rage in hell.
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ClimateSanity
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Arthur Brain said:
A church will provide all your essential needs if you have been a proven member for a long time. They also have many members who are employed who have information on where jobs are. Some members will even share their home with you if you are deemed to be sincerely in need.
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Arthur Brain
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Once again, not everybody has a loving family and I dunno where you're at but there's a dearth of employment in several areas and removing a safety net for those out of work would only up the poverty rate. You seem more interested in some platitudinous, rose tinted view of society rather than a realistic one.
ClimateSanity
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Why don't you give me some numbers? Where are you getting your ideas from? How many of every 1000 who enter the social safety system ever find their way to self sustainability?
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Arthur Brain
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As much as such charity is admirable it still seems to be dependent on factors such as membership etc. Once again, not everyone - in fact the majority of people are not long term members of a church.
ClimateSanity
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Not everyone has a loving family is true. Stop and think about that though before automatically going to welfare is the only answer. Society should create an atmosphere that makes that kind of family almost an inevitability.
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Arthur Brain
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You made the arbitrary claim, the onus is on you to back it up, so get on with it.
Arthur Brain
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Again, platitudes. There's no such thing as the 'American Dream' where everyone has some idyllic family and live in a lovely house surrounded by white picket fences...For some people welfare/benefits is the only way to have anything to live on and you remove that you escalate poverty a hundred fold.
Arthur Brain
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Then that's just yet another sound bite. You clearly have no idea what it's like for people on the lower end of the ladder even with the safety nets for the poor in place.
Um, no. Dunno where you're getting that from...
WASHINGTON — Most poor people who avail themselves of a U.S. government safety net program are off benefits within three years, according to a government survey that tracked individual people over time.
Of the one-in-five Americans who participated in a program like Medicaid or food stamps from 2009 through 2012, the Census Bureau reported this week, 56 percent stopped participating within 36 months, while 43 percent lingered between three and four years. Nearly one-third quit receiving benefits within one year. (link to Census data)
And Jesus Said Unto Paul of Ryan ...
What would Jesus tell House Speaker Paul Ryan about looking after the sick and the needy?
Mandel Ngan/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images
A woman who had been bleeding for 12 years came up behind Jesus and touched his clothes in hope of a cure. Jesus turned to her and said: “Fear not. Because of your faith, you are now healed.”
Then spoke Pious Paul of Ryan: “But teacher, is that wise? When you cure her, she learns dependency. Then the poor won’t take care of themselves, knowing that you’ll always bail them out! You must teach them personal responsibility!”
They were interrupted by 10 lepers who stood at a distance and shouted, “Jesus, have pity on us.”
“NO!” shouted Pious Paul. “Jesus! You don’t have time. We have a cocktail party fund-raiser in the temple. And don’t worry about them — they’ve already got health care access.”
Jesus turned to Pious Paul, puzzled.
“Why, they can pray for a cure,” Pious Paul explained. “I call that universal health care access.”
Jesus turned to the 10 lepers. “Rise and go,” he told them. “Your faith has made you well.” Then he turned back to Pious Paul, saying, “Let me tell you the story of the good Samaritan.
“A man was attacked by robbers who stripped him of clothes, beat him and left him half dead. A minister passed down this same road, and when he saw the injured man, he crossed to the other side and hurried on. So did a rich man who claimed to serve God. But then a despised Samaritan came by and took pity on the injured man. He bandaged his wounds and put the man on his own donkey and paid an innkeeper to nurse him to health. So which of these three should we follow?”
“Those who had mercy on him,” Pious Paul said promptly.
Jesus nodded. “So go ——”
“I mean the first two,” Pious Paul interjected. “For the Samaritan’s work is unsustainable and sends the wrong message. It teaches travelers to take dangerous roads, knowing that others will rescue them from self-destructive behaviors. This Samaritan also seems to think it right to redistribute money from those who are successful and give it to losers. That’s socialism! Meanwhile, if the rich man keeps his money, he can invest it and create jobs. So it’s an act of mercy for the rich man to hurry on and ignore the robbery victim.”
“How hard it is for the rich to enter the kingdom of Heaven,” Jesus mused to himself. “It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich person to enter heaven.”
“Let me teach you about love, Jesus — tough love!” Pious Paul explained. “You need a sustainable pro-business model. And you need to give people freedom, Jesus, the freedom to suffer misery and poverty.”
“The Lord God has anointed me to bring good news to the poor,” Jesus replied, emphasizing the last two words. Then he turned to a paralyzed beggar at his feet. “Stand up!” Jesus told the man. “Pick up your mat and go home.” As the man danced about joyfully, Pious Paul rolled his eyes dismissively.
“Look, Jesus, you have rare talent, and it should be rewarded,” Pious Paul said. “I have a partner, The Donald, who would like to work with you: He’d set up a lovely hospital, and the rich would come and pay for you to heal them. You’d get a percentage, and it’d be a real money-spinner. Overhead would be minimal because every morning you could multiply some loaves and fishes. You could strike it rich!”
“Blessed are the poor, for theirs is the kingdom of God,” Jesus said. “But woe to you who are rich, for you have already received comfort.”
“Oh, come on, Jesus,” Pious Paul protested. “Don’t go socialist on me again. Please don’t encourage class warfare. The best way to help the needy is to give public money to the rich. That then inspires the poor to work harder, galvanizes the sick to become healthy, forces the lepers to solve their own problems rather than kick back and depend on others. That’s why any realistic health plan has to focus on providing less coverage for the poor, and big tax benefits for the rich. When millions of people lose health care, that’s when a country is great again!”
“From everyone who has been given much,” Jesus told him, “much will be required.”
“Well, sure, this hospital would have a foundation to do some charity work. Maybe commissioning portraits of The Donald to hang in the entrance. But let’s drop this bleeding heart nonsense about health care as a human right, and see it as a financial opportunity to reward investors. In this partnership, 62 percent of the benefits would go to the top 0.6 percent — perfect for a health care plan.”
Jesus turned to Pious Paul on his left and said: “Be gone! For I was hungry and you gave me no food; I was thirsty, and you gave me no drink; and I was sick, and you did not help me.”
“But, Lord,” protested Pious Paul of Ryan, “when did I see you hungry or thirsty or sick and refuse to help you? I drop your name everywhere. And I’m pro-life!”
“Truly, I say to you,” Jesus responded, “as you did not help the homeless, the sick — as you did not help the least of these, you did not help me.”
And The Lord said:
Psalm 37:25 I have been young and now I am old, Yet I have not seen the righteous forsaken Or his descendants begging bread.
Hebrews 13:5
Keep your lives free from the love of money and be content with what you have, for God has said: "Never will I leave you, never will I forsake you."
Proverbs 10:3
The LORD will not allow the righteous to hunger, But He will reject the craving of the wicked.
Proverbs 13:22
A good man leaves an inheritance to his children's children, And the wealth of the sinner is stored up for the righteous.
Isaiah 41:17
"The afflicted and needy are seeking water, but there is none, And their tongue is parched with thirst; I, the LORD, will answer them Myself, As the God of Israel I will not forsake them.
Do you and the new york times trust God Anna?
Please show scripture where Jesus said to take what is your neighbors and give it to the causes you determine.
Does the New York Times offer who is to be given to and who is to be destroyed when they fake being "Jesus"?
The real Jesus (God) Matthew 7:22Many will say to Me on that day, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in Your name, and in Your name drive out demons and perform many miracles?’ 23Then I will tell them plainly, ‘I never knew you; depart from Me, you workers of lawlessness.’
If things were as intended, no one would want. For anything.
yes, thats called entitlement mentality, its why so many need them now and why sin is rampant.
exminister
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How exactly is the starving population in North Korea needs best serve in your interpretation of what a democracy is? Time for you to look up what a dictatorship is versus a democracy, even a republic.
And we're often the means by which the Lord provides.
Whoever is generous to the poor lends to the Lord, and he will repay him for his deed. Proverbs 19:17
A righteous man knows the rights of the poor; a wicked man does not understand such knowledge. Proverbs 29:7
Whoever has a bountiful eye will be blessed, for he shares his bread with the poor. Proverbs 22:9
If you pour yourself out for the hungry and satisfy the desire of the afflicted, then shall your light rise in the darkness and your gloom be as the noonday. Isaiah 58:10
“If among you, one of your brothers should become poor, in any of your towns within your land that the Lord your God is giving you, you shall not harden your heart or shut your hand against your poor brother, but you shall open your hand to him and lend him sufficient for his need, whatever it may be. Take care lest there be an unworthy thought in your heart and you say, ‘The seventh year, the year of release is near,’ and your eye look grudgingly on your poor brother, and you give him nothing, and he cry to the Lord against you, and you be guilty of sin. You shall give to him freely, and your heart shall not be grudging when you give to him, because for this the Lord your God will bless you in all your work and in all that you undertake. For there will never cease to be poor in the land. Therefore I command you, ‘You shall open wide your hand to your brother, to the needy and to the poor, in your land.’ Deuteronomy 15:7-11
Behold, this was the guilt of your sister Sodom: she and her daughters had pride, excess of food, and prosperous ease, but did not aid the poor and needy. Ezekiel 16:49
And to some:
41 “Then the king will say to the evil people on his left, ‘Get away from me. God has already decided that you will be punished. Go into the fire that burns forever—the fire that was prepared for the devil and his angels.42 You must go away because when I was hungry, you gave me nothing to eat. When I was thirsty, you gave me nothing to drink.43 When I had no place to stay, you did not welcome me into your home. When I was without clothes, you gave me nothing to wear. When I was sick and in prison, you did not care for me.’
44 “Then those people will answer, ‘Lord, when did we see you hungry or thirsty? When did we see you without a place to stay? Or when did we see you without clothes or sick or in prison? When did we see any of this and not help you?’
45 “The king will answer, ‘The truth is, anything you refused to do for any of my people here, you refused to do for me.’ Matthew 25: 41-45
Lon
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Recently saw some footage and was deeply grieved by what that regime is doing. Off topic, but worth a thread of its own.
Arthur Brain
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How great it must be to sit in that practically faultless and self righteous high horse...
I mean, why else would a person be on benefits if they didn't feel "entitled" to it?
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