Lawmakers Find $21 a Week Doesn't Buy a Lot of Groceries

[AKA_Monet]

Originally Posted by Kevin

We ought not spend our hard earned money on folks who did not earn money in their lifetimes. Those people are wastes of oxygen in my opinion. I'll bet if we quit giving them $21/week in food stamps, they'd get jobs... or they'd die.

With all the suffering in the world, someone kicking off because they were too lazy to do the sort of work Americans won't do doesn't bother me so much.

Kevin--

Most of the time agree with you. But these statement. Can you be any more heartless and so hardened? Do you call yourself a Christian with your kind of thinking? Stewardship, Lovingkindness and Charity? These ideals are all parts of LOVE... We Christians are called to follow one last commandment to "love one another"... Who are you on that trail to Jericho?

You are turning your back on humanity. Another name it is called idolatry--attempting to be beyond the view of God. Fact is, in the course of life you NEVER KNOW if loss of everything including your mind and credibility can happen. Just ask Job, if you think it doesn't. And guess what, folks that lose everything think it would NEVER happen to them in a million years. So, it is prudent to show some humility and without prejudice. Because ultimately, you will die someday... And if you believe in God and Christ, then you will have to explain that dash in between your birthdate and death date.

Now, I know you support many wonderful things and several positive forces in your life have provided aspects in your life to bequeathed you with the degrees, knowledge and training for the career of your wildest dreams. You have been truly blessed to be in your position. However, many extremely impoverished people have criminal records. So, inevitably we, the taxpayers, wind up paying for them anyway... I would prefer remediation, with homeless assistance and education rather than prison anyday. It is cheaper in the longrun. And now the poor recividism from prison release without proper retraining has become a public health issue.

All people deserve dignity... That is a Geneva Convention under the world court. Overt starvation without the state's attempt to improve it is a human rights violation, moreover, it is tortuous for government agencies not to protect the dignity and rights of all its people within its borders.

With this, I will leave you with Langston Hughes poems:

Dream Deferred

What happens to a dream deferred?
Does it dry up
Like a raisin in the sun?
Or fester like a sore--
And then run?
Does it stink like rotten meat?
Or crust and sugar over--
like a syrupy sweet?
Maybe it just sag
like a heavy load.
Or does it explode?



Mother to Son

Well, son, I'll tell you:
Life for me ain't been no crystal stair.
It's had tacks in it,
And splinters,
And boards torn up,
And places with no carpet on the floor—
Bare.
But all the time
I'se been a-climbin' on,
And reachin' landin's,
And turnin' corners,
And sometimes goin' in the dark
Where there ain't been no light.
So, boy, don't you turn back.
Don't you set down on the steps.
'Cause you finds it's kinder hard.
Don't you fall now—
For I'se still goin', honey,
I'se still climbin',
And life for me ain't been no crystal stair.