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From: james@reality1.UUCP (james)
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Subject: Re: Poor People/Lazy People
Message-ID: <41@reality1.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 19-Oct-86 22:54:22 EDT
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Posted: Sun Oct 19 22:54:22 1986
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In article <2000@ihlpa.UUCP>, gadfly@ihlpa.UUCP (Gadfly) writes:
> 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.

Turn the question around and look at it this way: The question is really do
shiftless and lazy (optionally "dirty"  :-) ) people have a claim on my
wealth, such as it is?  I think not.  They have no right to presume that if
they chose not to work, someone will take away my money and give it to them.
Were these people to actually have to justify themselves to the individuals
they were asking for money, I expect we would have fewer people unemployed.

I currently have two friends who are unemployed.  One dropped out of school a
year ago and has been without a job for two months (he quit his last job
because he didn't like working at a bank).  The other has a BS in EE and was
laid off three months ago or so, and for whatever reason hasn't found an
acceptable job yet.  Neither is on welfare yet, but it is difficult for me to
follow the discussions of welfare programs without thinking of the two cases
of unemployed people I am familiar with.
-- 
James R. Van Artsdalen    ...!ut-ngp!utastro!osi3b2!james    "Live Free or Die"