You're pushing the Bush line that "compassion" is equated with government-enforced welfarism. If Social Security is completely dismantled, there'd be nothing forcing you or anyone else to "step over" anyone's "bodies". You and everyone else will still be free to show them all the compassion you want. Having government take over the "compassion" ethic is a seriously misguided idea.
Well, if the worst anyone can ever say of me is that I pushed the Bush agenda, I'm doing well. I'll take Bush's reasoned solutions over the "Throw'em to the dogs rhetoric" I'm reading here any day.
If Social Security is completely dismantled, there'd be nothing forcing you or anyone else to "step over" anyone's "bodies". You and everyone else will still be free to show them all the compassion you want. Having government take over the "compassion" ethic is a seriously misguided idea.
You just don't get it do you? Stepping over bodies was a metaphor. Our society, as least as it stands now simply will not tolerate the type of poverty you see abroad in our countrymen. We will move to stop it, and if you don't like it, tough. Unlike Indians, Americans wouldn't let Chicago (to pick a city at random) turn into Calcuta. Americans would do something. Thank God I'm an American.