[exhaustguy]

1. Think about how many people scrape together a few dollars that could be used to better their family's condition. Kind of like Evita the musical. The lottery: A voluntary tax on the mathematically challenged.
2. Just because a relative or neighbor becomes wealthy does not allow us to put a claim on that wealth. What sort of man asks for help unless he is starving? I can see how a peer acquiring great wealth could put a strain on the relationship, but I wonder about the people who surrounded this man. I see no pleasure in spending another man's money.

[jwpjr]

re: neighbor becomes wealthy does not allow us to put a claim on that wealth

But isn't that exactly what the voters do so often, by electing or returning to office politicians who convince the less wealthy that those with more owe them something and the power of government can rightly be used to help them get what's owed them?

re: I see no pleasure in spending another man's money

And that's the difference been a liberal and a conservative! Liberals delight in being generous to the "less fortunate", and have no problem using the money of others to do it.

You have certainly summed it up very succinctly!

[Gorzaloon]

What sort of man asks for help unless he is starving? I

I guess you never knew a coke or gambling addict. Good.

The "emergencies" that always seem to show up usually reflect enough creativity that the person could make a good living at nearly anything, if they were not crippled by a habit.

[Polybius]

I see no pleasure in spending another man's money.

"Speak for yourself, exhaustguy."

[douglas1]

THOSE same people dont give a damn ,they just move on to the next sucker.