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In my times of need, my family has held me up...and in their times of need, I have held them up. In addition, I have donated to charities which I know to be "legitimate." I do so when I have given the "charity which begins at home" and have some left over.

I believe that you speak of a system in which lazy people can just opt out. They can lay down their tools and "take a break" on the backs of those who do NOT ride upon the theft of strangers (via welfare and taxation).

CHARITY...TRUE CHARITY...worked. BEFORE THE GOVERNMENT ROBBED US at figurative gunpoint IN THIS COMMUNISTIC/SOCIALISTIC MANNER--When a neighbor needed help, a community circled the wagons and righted things for that needy neighbor.

Everyone needs a helping hand on occasion...but for anyone to EXPECT others to feed their non-productive selves, is abhorent!

There is so much more to say on this...so many more examples and wrongs...but I tire of this. And I anger at the symplistic manner in which you view this theft of workers' hard earned means. Don't you REALIZE that what is DEMANDED AND RIPPED from us might be NEEDED by us!

Glad you have compartmentalized what should and shouldn't happen in your life. Maybe it will work out that way and maybe it won't. Regardless, you are more concerned about your pocketbook than with the value and dignity of human life. I have no way to change your mind and won't attempt to try. I simply pray that you never are put in the position of being the benefactor of what you preach.

True virtue is not anemic or self-centered.