When the legend becomes fact, print the legend.

[RobDownSouth]

I love this one. As if the government equals "charity." "Charity" extorted from the public under penalty of law at best and at the end of the barrel of a gun in the worst case is not "charity" at all. It is extorted monies being spread around for the government's own purposes. True charity is a voluntary act on the part of individuals or organizations. Without the voluntary component it's a rather meaningless act.

Ishmael

^^^ Is on Medicare.
^^^ draws Social Security.
^^^ decries "Government Charity".

The Right Wing in a nutshell, friends.

 

[RobDownSouth]

It would seem as if the repudiation of religion and religious values is replaced with the audacity of government and equality of outcome.

No such thing. A straw man created by the Whackadoodle Right.

 

[unregistered]

 

[RobDownSouth]

As if benevolence is even the government's job.

Subsistence is benevolence?

Who knew?

 

[unregistered]

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

Subsistence is benevolence?

Who knew?

The part you don't get is: Government never takes care of peasants, it exploits peasants.

 

[about_average]

Forty years ago I learned that the media looks for the sexiest spin.

I was a fireman back then.

We had a house fire in a garage apartment behind the main residence.

There were no hydrants at that location so we brought a 9000 gallon water truck to supply the pumper truck.

So we parked the pumper truck on the street, connected it to the water truck, and ran hoses to the garage from the pumper. SOP.

A reporter comes along and wants to know why we didn't park the semi-water tanker adjacent to the garage.

We said, ITS NOT NECESSARY, ITS IMPOSSIBLE TO DO BECAUSE OF THE TRUCKS TURNING RADIUS, AND OUT ON THE STREET ITS EASIER TO SEND THE TRUCK FOR MORE WATER.

So next day, in the paper, the headline says: FIREMEN INCOMPETENT TO OPERATE FIRE EQUIPTMENT.

I like the Lou Gerstner's Dog Can't Swim! story better. More plausible.

 

[neci]

talk is cheap.

 

[phrodeau]

I love this one. As if the government equals "charity." "Charity" extorted from the public under penalty of law at best and at the end of the barrel of a gun in the worst case is not "charity" at all. It is extorted monies being spread around for the government's own purposes. True charity is a voluntary act on the part of individuals or organizations. Without the voluntary component it's a rather meaningless act.

Ishmael

Uh-huh. So be sure to give generously to the election campaign of Republicans. It's the charitable thing to do.