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Fresno tax to help homeless
Katherine J. White
Issue date: 5/9/07 Section: Opinion
Fresno has implemented a new tax aimed at providing housing for the homeless, which is sure to raise the ire of staunch capitalists and brave little anal Republicans everywhere. It seems like a good idea to me.
A few years ago in Florida, a county began buying cars for low-income single mothers, which was a good thing because job hunting became easier for them. However, brain-challenged fools like Bush would say that counties should not try to provide a means of escape from poverty for some people. Of course, this attitude helps perpetuate poverty.
It is communism, they scream. This is America; individualism is important here. These people are adults; they should take care of themselves, capitalists say.
However, these people are not thinking things through. It is all right to bear in mind certain principles, but it cannot take the place of the thinking that goes beyond common accepted parameters. Principles should not be used to restrict and constrain critical thinking skills. Principles are supposed to be the reference guides for more evolved thinking.
One important thing to remember is that any aid distributed to the needy should be temporary. Moreover, any aid should help individuals get into self-sufficient positions.
However, some people will say that these people should not get any help whatsoever.
It is a proven fact that if you do not take care of a problem, it stays. So, poverty has to be addressed with some type of solution, or society will never be rid of it.
Now, Jesus Christ once said, "The poor will always be with you." I have always believed that what He meant was that there will always be greedy, selfish people who will always be around to exploit the poor, and that therefore, because of this, the poor would always remain with society.
Some people interpret this verse as meaning that poverty will be a problem that will remain with society and will never be solved. However, Christ could not have meant this. He just could not have meant that. People who say poverty is an issue that can never be resolved are avaricious people who want to have an excuse to exploit the poor. There are some people out there with the blasphemous audacity to use God, no less, as an excuse for their exploitative behavior. But hey, that is biblical, is it not? It has been done before. Just think of American slave owners; they used the Bible no less to qualify the ungodly practice of slave owning. They would quote the verse that runs, "Slaves, be subject to your masters."
Captain America-wannabes like Bush who need poor people, remember this: Hard-working people can get into desperate situations. Well, maybe people who yell that these people are adults and this this is a capitalistic country are right in principle.
However, fat load of good capitalism has done for Russia. Those Russian people were completely unprepared for capitalism; in lieu of communism, the Russians have rampant crime, poverty, gang problems, unemployment and all of the sugar plums of so-called democracy, not to mention elderly people facing pension-deprived futures because so-called democracy and capitalism came too late for them.
John F. Kennedy once said that democracy is the best of the worst of political systems; however, democracy, conjoined at the hip with its evil twin, capitalism, is just simply bad.
A few years ago in Florida, a county began buying cars for low-income single mothers, which was a good thing because job hunting became easier for them. However, brain-challenged fools like Bush would say that counties should not try to provide a means of escape from poverty for some people. Of course, this attitude helps perpetuate poverty.
It is communism, they scream. This is America; individualism is important here. These people are adults; they should take care of themselves, capitalists say.
However, these people are not thinking things through. It is all right to bear in mind certain principles, but it cannot take the place of the thinking that goes beyond common accepted parameters. Principles should not be used to restrict and constrain critical thinking skills. Principles are supposed to be the reference guides for more evolved thinking.
One important thing to remember is that any aid distributed to the needy should be temporary. Moreover, any aid should help individuals get into self-sufficient positions.
However, some people will say that these people should not get any help whatsoever.
It is a proven fact that if you do not take care of a problem, it stays. So, poverty has to be addressed with some type of solution, or society will never be rid of it.
Now, Jesus Christ once said, "The poor will always be with you." I have always believed that what He meant was that there will always be greedy, selfish people who will always be around to exploit the poor, and that therefore, because of this, the poor would always remain with society.
Some people interpret this verse as meaning that poverty will be a problem that will remain with society and will never be solved. However, Christ could not have meant this. He just could not have meant that. People who say poverty is an issue that can never be resolved are avaricious people who want to have an excuse to exploit the poor. There are some people out there with the blasphemous audacity to use God, no less, as an excuse for their exploitative behavior. But hey, that is biblical, is it not? It has been done before. Just think of American slave owners; they used the Bible no less to qualify the ungodly practice of slave owning. They would quote the verse that runs, "Slaves, be subject to your masters."
Captain America-wannabes like Bush who need poor people, remember this: Hard-working people can get into desperate situations. Well, maybe people who yell that these people are adults and this this is a capitalistic country are right in principle.
However, fat load of good capitalism has done for Russia. Those Russian people were completely unprepared for capitalism; in lieu of communism, the Russians have rampant crime, poverty, gang problems, unemployment and all of the sugar plums of so-called democracy, not to mention elderly people facing pension-deprived futures because so-called democracy and capitalism came too late for them.
John F. Kennedy once said that democracy is the best of the worst of political systems; however, democracy, conjoined at the hip with its evil twin, capitalism, is just simply bad.
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