Posted on 06/06/2011 6:56:14 AM PDT by billflax
The budget debates have been illuminating. Apparently, those heartless tea partiers would gladly allow children to starve so millionaires can pay less in the way of taxes. The latter has been a recurring slander leveled against welfare reform in the ’90s and more recently in response to Paul Ryan’s budget proposal.
No one starved then. What if Washington stopped doling out relief now? Would a vacuum prevail? It’s an odd presumption considering free markets have lifted so many millions out of poverty and America is the world’s most generous dispenser of private charity. Maybe sanctimonious liberals fear such a vacuum because they are notoriously stingy.
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I got a letter from my daughter’s public school on Friday. The school will serve free hot breakfasts and lunches all summer for any child who comes in. (I guess it is to replace the free lunches they get during the school year). The kids won’t starve. But I do wonder what Mama is doing with the welfare check.
all they’d have to do is cancel cable/ satellite, get a very basic cell phone and plan (and sell the smart phone) then sell the big screen tv’s, the blu-ray and dvd players, the xbox/ ps3/ wii/ ds/ etc., quit drinking, going out for fast food, smoking, drugging, quit buying designer clothing... basically cut out all the non-essential luxuries that they seem to think they’re entitled to, and realise.. OMG.. you actually can live on a mcdonalds salary.
getting married before having kids and staying that way would help too.
“Aside from episodes like the Donner party, starvation was simply not an issue due to effective private charity (the only real charity). By contrast, today’s poor have a huge problem with OBESITY, not starvation. Think about that for a minute”
I was doing some reading on the Donner Party. Couple things.
1, they decided to leave the Oregon Trail at Ft. Bridger. This was a mistake. Had they stuck to the Oregon trail, they were about a week behind getting to Independence Rock on the 11th of July.
They would have made California down the California trail just fine. They were warned on the trail, they had zero experience in camping, in fishing, in hunting.
They essentially built the Morman Trail to Salt Lake, when they lost their way, and took a different direction. This cost them time, and manpower and food, because Ft. Bridger was their last replenishment.
Despite all that, they should have still made it over the pass. They were several days behind, and got snowed in. They had cattle stolen from them and most of their food and cattle got snowed under and was lost to them.
“We were mounted on mules, had no families, and could afford to hazard experiments, and make explorations. They could not.”
They spent a full week from 10th August to 17th of August building a road, which put them 2 weeks behind schedule.
LLS
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