entitlement

[Joel S. Berson]

We should force the Tea-Partyists to accept all of the 18th century,
when the principle was to do good for the "commonwealth", all the
people collectively, and an action approved by only a "trifling"
majority was suspect.  And when it was an accepted obligation of the
Commonwealth to support the needy (although it was also the
obligation of the latter to do what work they could).

Joel

At 8/1/2012 11:00 AM, Jonathan Lighter wrote:
>Yeah, but the alternative would be to impose confiscatory taxes on
>gazillionaire job-creators who sacrificed (see other thread) to become rich.
>
>The Constitution does not require taxpayers to provide poor people with
>cash for survival, particularly since they'll just spend it on drugs and
>booze and then get rich off socialist food stamps. (And don't confuse the
>issue with cherry-picked exceptions!)
>
>Remember, the indigent sacrificed *nothing* for their poverty. Thus, at the
>very least, socialistic entitlements send the wrong message to young
>people, who need to know that the American dream of no taxes and every son
>of a bitch for himself is *alive and well*!
>
>JL
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>On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 9:56 PM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:
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> > On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 12:56 PM, Geoffrey Nunberg
> > <nunberg at ischool.berkeley.edu> wrote:
> > > _guaranteed_ to eligible recipients without regard to the cost > in a
> > given period
> >
> > Without any prior warning, the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania  has
> > announced that an entitlement of $200/mo. for those who have no other
> > source of income will be cease, as of  the 21st of August, 2012. The
> > state has suggested that those affected by the loss of this
> > entitlement may wish to attempt to seek relief at the federal level.
> >
> > Fortunately, we conservatives are starving that beast.
> >
> > Of course, those affected don't own horses. Hence, those beasts will
> > not be starving.
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> > to come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
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