MindBlind wrote:
I know that she had to work hard and I honestly don't care. If you work hard and you get a lot of money for it, you still have a responsibility to your community. I can't stand a lot of objectavists beause many of them seem to assume that everyone is able to work or that everyone who does work shouldn't need support or that people who do get support from the community are just lazy and money grubbing. Are people lazy because they can't afford healthcare? Are people parasites because they need help in school? Are people moochers because the money that they make from the only job that they can get/are able to do doesn't even begin to help provide for them and their family? Not everyone has it the same way and not everyone has the same resources. Not everyone can pay the same tax rate not everyone can live up to society's expectations.
I agree that people who refuse to work when they can work and purely because they don't want to work should get a job, but it's not as simple as that. Where are the jobs? How are they going to travel there? What kind of work is it? How skilled are they? Will they be taught skills on the job? Is it enough to keep them going? Are there maybe more complex reasons why they decided not to work?
I agree that people who work hard should be rewarded, but if they live well within their means (despite how much blood and tears went into the life they have now) they should help their neighbor out. That's a real society.
Sorry if I sound angry - my government is pissing me off right now and I kind of blame objectavism for it.
Well said. It disgusts me how so many people completely ignore the gray area of the issue, and stick with the knee-jerk "ah gawt me a jawb, so thayat means payple with disabilities don't exist, and if payple say thur disabled, they should just git over it and git a jawb and git 'er done or else thur a dayumn SOCIALIST!" mentality.
26 Oct 2010, 5:35 pm
