(04-10-2016 09:39 AM)Fo Shizzle Wrote:  

(04-08-2016 08:42 PM)HarmonOliphantOberlanderDevine Wrote:  Get rid of all welfare. My tax money shouldn't be supporting a welfare Queen or a poor parent.

I have no problem supporting those that truly can not support themselves due to mental or physical disability...but..if you are able bodied? Hell No.

Not with my tax money. If charity wishes to help, fine by me. But don't take from my hard work.

As John Smith said : "Those who do not work, do not eat."

Yea, I'm for a safety net as well for the old and disabled.

(04-10-2016 09:48 AM)Fitbud Wrote:  

(04-08-2016 02:46 PM)Hambone10 Wrote:  LOTS of things work in small places that don't in larger ones. In small towns, everyone knows your business... so there is lots of public shame in doing wrong. In larger cities, you don't know most of the people in your building, much less your neighborhood or town. Less public pressure to 'do right'.

But it works both ways, in small towns, people tend to help each other because they know eachother. Not so much in the big city.

So what you are saying is Big City = Liberal Utopia = Not giving a damned about each other

(04-10-2016 09:48 AM)Fitbud Wrote:  

(04-08-2016 02:46 PM)Hambone10 Wrote:  LOTS of things work in small places that don't in larger ones. In small towns, everyone knows your business... so there is lots of public shame in doing wrong. In larger cities, you don't know most of the people in your building, much less your neighborhood or town. Less public pressure to 'do right'.

But it works both ways, in small towns, people tend to help each other because they know eachother. Not so much in the big city.

That's probably true, but it's not 'both ways'. Those two things aren't mutually exclusive. One is the government, the other is 'the people'. Isn't that precisely the articulated difference between r and d on the issue?

I'd argue that far more charity dollars and services exist in big cities... even per capita... but also far more corruption/waste because of the size of the operations.

(04-08-2016 02:46 PM)Hambone10 Wrote:  LOTS of things work in small places that don't in larger ones.

(04-08-2016 02:46 PM)Hambone10 Wrote:  LOTS of things work in small places that don't in larger ones. In small towns, everyone knows your business... so there is lots of public shame in doing wrong. In larger cities, you don't know most of the people in your building, much less your neighborhood or town. Less public pressure to 'do right'.

that's a perfect extrapolated comparative analogy....