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From: gadfly@ihlpa.UUCP (Gadfly)
Newsgroups: net.misc
Subject: Re: Poor People/Lazy People
Message-ID: <2000@ihlpa.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 7-Oct-86 16:45:17 EDT
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Posted: Tue Oct  7 16:45:17 1986
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> chris@minnie.UUCP (Chris Grevstad) adds:
> >Hear hear!!!  Where people get the notion that someone has a claim on my
> >wealth only by virtue of being a member of the same society I will never
> >know.
> >
> >I have no problems helping those who really need help, but I refuse to
> >finance the activities of those who have no interest in helping themselves.
> 
> I second both motions...
> I still see the same people in the same projects,
> on the same welfare, "help wanted" signs notwithstanding.  (BTW, this 
> is in a part of the country where one *can* live on minimum wage.  At
> one point, my friends said I was crazy for spending $310/month for a 
> one-bedroom apartment.)
> 
> -Ed Horch

The question is not whether these shiftless and lazy (didn't you forget
"dirty"?) folks have a claim on your wealth.  The question is whether
you have obligations to people you don't even know.  If you've got
any semblance of ethics in your yuppie, designer brains you know that
you *do* have such obligations.  So spare me your lookin'-out-for-ol'-
number-one pseudo-moral pseudo-outrage.  If those unwashed low-lifes
knew how lame you are they'd murder you in your sleep.

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