On Sat, 28 Apr 2007 12:20:16 -0400, Jose
wrote in :

Just for a moment try to imagine a nation where the poor old folks who
have given the toil of their youth to increasing the GNP (or whatever
its called these days) littering the pavement of your city so thick
that you can't walk down the sidewalk.

Imagine for a moment a nation where the young folk spend recklessly and
go into debt instead of saving for their retirment, knowing that when
they come of age, somebody else will take care of them. This is the end
result of a slow creep of large organizations (including but not limited
to government) making benevolent decisions for us.

What kind of nation will that lead to? Certainly not a strong one - not
a world leader.

Jose

So you think that failing to care for the nation's poor is appropriate
for a government, and it makes the nation stronger. Interesting.

Don't get me wrong. I don't want the government telling me when it is
mandatory for me to wear my sweater. But what do you think would be
the consequences of failing to care for the poor? Do you think it
would be cheaper to police the desperate souls who are driven to crime
because they are hungry?

I give up. I hope you get a chance to live in the world you desire.
It would be fitting for people who think the way you do to have to
live in a world overrun with hungry, desperate derelicts. Or heaven
forbid, disaster should strike and disable you, so that you were
unemployable.

Neglect of those who have toiled their life away to make our nation
great may be the sign of a strong nation (I doubt it), but it sure
lacks nobility.