06-18-2009, 09:00 PM
This from the A.I.G. thread, but it's been gettin away from that specific area so I thought I'd start a new one.
You're telling me that because there are people who can't think for themselves, the government should have the right to legislate how we as individuals act, think and feel? That's going a little far. If you want to talk about supporting lazy people, why don't we look at welfare reform? It's a sore time to bring that up, I know.. but even when times were good it was abused beyond belief.
See, I have a second, part-time job as a produce clerk at a local supermarket (for seven years, I've been working one FT and one PT job). At times, I get called to help carry out groceries... and when I see someone pay with a Michigan BRIDGE Card and I have to load their groceries in a nice new Honda Pilot, a newer Lexus, or any number of other nice vehicles I've done it for, it pisses me off some. Don't cry about how people can't break an addiction to cigarettes, food, or whatever that *I* need to pay for it, because I'll end up paying for it in the long run. Just because "people in general" are lazy and don't want to make decisions does not mean that I should be OK with taking care of their problems via social, taxpayer funded programs.
Taking away freedom of choice is not the answer. The government telling companies what they can and can't manufacture is not the answer. I'm not going to pretend I can solve the world's problems, but trying to legislate people's behavior does not sit well with me.
Philly Mike Wrote:Well yes a lot of us can make our own decisions, but I don't know if you have noticed this, but people in general are too lazy to make decisions for themselves, this is where the problem lies. People are too lazy to make their own food so they just buy from mcdonalds the biggest and fattiest thing they can find, then when they get fat the sue mcdonalds. People decide for some reason to smoke cigarettes then soon enough they begin to smoke 1 pack a day then 2 then 3 and even more in some cases. then they get cancer and sue the tobacco companies.
You're telling me that because there are people who can't think for themselves, the government should have the right to legislate how we as individuals act, think and feel? That's going a little far. If you want to talk about supporting lazy people, why don't we look at welfare reform? It's a sore time to bring that up, I know.. but even when times were good it was abused beyond belief.
See, I have a second, part-time job as a produce clerk at a local supermarket (for seven years, I've been working one FT and one PT job). At times, I get called to help carry out groceries... and when I see someone pay with a Michigan BRIDGE Card and I have to load their groceries in a nice new Honda Pilot, a newer Lexus, or any number of other nice vehicles I've done it for, it pisses me off some. Don't cry about how people can't break an addiction to cigarettes, food, or whatever that *I* need to pay for it, because I'll end up paying for it in the long run. Just because "people in general" are lazy and don't want to make decisions does not mean that I should be OK with taking care of their problems via social, taxpayer funded programs.
Taking away freedom of choice is not the answer. The government telling companies what they can and can't manufacture is not the answer. I'm not going to pretend I can solve the world's problems, but trying to legislate people's behavior does not sit well with me.
Where would we be without the agitators of the world attaching the electrodes of knowledge to the nipples of ignorance?