It's not evil. Just stupid.but, but, but, your evil
Exactly how would the rich get rid of Food Stamps?The rich would be insane to get rid of food stamps. No one has ever revolted because they couldn't get an iPad. But if someone is starving? They'll kill your whole family without thinking twice. Food stamps allow the rich to fleece the poor without the serious threat of revolution. Yes, I'm being somewhat tongue in cheek.
Abuse of the food stamp system infuriates me because I've watched every single one of my friends do it. But the alternatives are much worse. We can't get rid of food stamps when the minimum wage isn't enough to cover housing and food in many places in the country. It just doesn't work.
By rich I'm talking about the people in positions of power; the ruling class. If you don't see the influence that wealthy people have in politics and the overall power structure of our country, there's no helping you. But I was being facetious anyway; obviously the politicians aren't going to cut off everyone's food stamps. I just think it's odd how people complain about food stamps without considering what the alternatives would be. Desperate people do desperate things.Exactly how would the rich get rid of Food Stamps?
You are mistakenly assuming that hungry people are going to get off their lazy butts and march across town and steal food from the rich.By rich I'm talking about the people in positions of power; the ruling class. If you don't see the influence that wealthy people have in politics and the overall power structure of our country, there's no helping you. But I was being facetious anyway; obviously the politicians aren't going to cut off everyone's food stamps. I just think it's odd how people complain about food stamps without considering what the alternatives would be. Desperate people do desperate things.
There is plenty of land in Alaska.I suppose it would be fair to stop handing out food if you gave them land to grow their own food on.
Stupid is when you get people dependant on a life time of handouts. Because the choice between working and not is made tens of thosands of times easier.It's not evil. Just stupid.
Or would you like to see humans compete for food with others of their species in the same way that wild animals do?
Be careful what you wish for.
If an animal becomes addicted to handouts I wonder what the park service does? They'd either need to put them down or retrain the animal.Wildlife can become dependent upon handouts and lose their ability to hunt and forage.
Nice cherry-picking there. Here's their whole article:Wanted to check up on this one and it's true!
http://www.nps.gov/grca/naturescience/animals.htm
If an animal becomes addicted to handouts I wonder what the park service does? They'd either need to put them down or retrain the animal.
Because rich urban liberals fear the minorities in their midst and know themselves well enough to understand they have neither the means or will to defend themselves. Lke Rome in the decline stages, they're too decadent and effete to do anything but pay tribute to the Visigoths lest they come down from places like Harlem and start slitting Manhattanite throats.It's not evil. Just stupid.
Or would you like to see humans compete for food with others of their species in the same way that wild animals do?
Be careful what you wish for.
Wasn't trying to cherry pick, the article I took my quote from is different than the one you posted.Nice cherry-picking there. Here's their whole article:
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There is a "read more" link right after that which goes to the article you quoted.Wildlife Alert
Never approach wild animals. Photograph all wildlife from the safety of your vehicle. Use telephoto lenses and observe quietly. It is dangerous, and illegal, to feed wild animals in a national park. Violators will be fined. Wildlife can become dependent upon handouts and lose their ability to hunt and forage. Such animals lose their fear of humans. They can become aggressive and bite, kick, or gore. Many are struck by cars while searching for handouts. Help us keep wildlife wild. Never feed or approach wildlife.
nice rant. was there a point there?In a modern society, people are very much dependent on each other, regardless of libertopian ravings to the contrary. We have but to examine the artifacts of modern life to understand that. The more advanced a society becomes, the more that becomes the truth.
It's all bound together by divisions of labor, specializations, and commerce.
The other part of it that the usual suspects refuse to recognize is that food, in this country, has absolutely no scarcity whatsoever, other than that caused by maldistribution. We throw away more food than we give away, and the act of doing both is actually beneficial to food producers. Whatever food the govt distributes for free is money in the pockets of those who produce it.
The other part of it all that's deliberately ignored is that the sacred Free Market has tripped all over itself in the past wrt food. An over supply of food in the early 1930's led to precipitous price drops and a situation where millions went hungry because there was no profit in harvesting & bringing crops to market.
The so-called Free Market system has also failed to distribute rewards in a fashion where it supports itself in terms of providing for middle class incomes in the face of ever increasing living expenses. Median families & below would be earning ~40% more today if the income distribution curve of 1980 had been maintained, while the top 1% would be earning about half of what they now do. Food stamps don't even begin to make up for that shift of income to the tippy top.
Food stamps? Socialism? Of course it is, but it's piss poor socialism compared to what we had prior to Saint Ronnie, when unions pushed wages up & higher taxes at the top kept the rich & well connected from taking the whole pie, when offshoring was just a gleam in the eye of American capitalists & when PEG's hadn't discovered just how profitable the looting of otherwise healthy companies really was.
Can't figure it out? You're not supposed to, sillies. That's why you've been given Ideologues & pundits to worship, slogans to chant & a sense of moral superiority where there is none. Think you're safe, that you're some sort of special snowflake because you sing along with the choir? Hardly. Whether you realize it or not, you're on the hit list- they'll get to you eventually, and it'll be your own fault, but not in ways you'll ever recognize.
So, uhh, you have a job & resent paying taxes at all? So did a lot of other people before too many became enthralled by the ideology of greed, before they came to worship wealth & those who possess it as false Gods, before "I got mine -Screw you!" became the slogan of too many people who don't realize that we depend on each other more than they're willing to admit.
One that inevitably went completely over your head, as I was sure it would.nice rant. was there a point there?
As if the real looting weren't already coming from an entirely different quarter, as if the pen weren't mightier than the sword. As if the term "Lootocracy" weren't all too true.Because rich urban liberals fear the minorities in their midst and know themselves well enough to understand they have neither the means or will to defend themselves. Lke Rome in the decline stages, they're too decadent and effete to do anything but pay tribute to the Visigoths lest they come down from places like Harlem and start slitting Manhattanite throats.
News flash. We are all animals.It's nice that you can be so honest as to admit that you think of poor people as animals. :thumbsup:
Your rants always seem to be about tax rates, shifting jobs overseas and Reagan. All ills that have befouled our country are due to the upper class not having to pay as much in taxes. Get over it. Our whole country started buying all the cheapest crap we could find back in the 70s and the vast majority of it was from Japan or Taiwan. There went the jobs. Jobs go where the money goes.One that inevitably went completely over your head, as I was sure it would.
Nice cherry-picking there. Here's their whole article:
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Context matters.
Their stated reason from your link:Their stated reason for the policy is because the animals will grow dependent on handouts and will not learn to take care of themselves.
Animals that are fed by people become dependent on human food, and may lose their natural fear of humans and their ability to forage for natural foods. There is a lot of truth to the saying, a fed animal is a dead animal. In addition to losing their foraging ability, animals that have been fed are less likely to survive other reasons. Animals that have been fed from cars congregate near roadways and are at a high risk of being killed by vehicle collisions.
In recent years, the National Park Service has had to euthanize deer, coyotes, rock squirrels and other animals at Grand Canyon that had become overly aggressive towards humans and/or had become completely dependant on food handouts.