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- Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1992 19:32:00 AST
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- From: Ramon <R_ALEMAN@UPR1.UPR.CLU.EDU>
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- >My proposal was to leave it up to the
- >individual, many people are happy to help others. Do you see this as
- >foolish or just what is your complaint?What should we learn from history
- >in regard to helping the less fortunate?
-
- Sorry, no harm intended but yes, I see it as a very foolish belief.
- If we look back at a time when no welfare existed and capitalism reigned in
- full bloom, we will notice that the poverty rates were enormous. People
- died from hunger and overwork by the millions. Children were forced to work
- from an early age to survive. Many worked in unsafe and near-slavery
- conditions, and this was considered normal. Literature is full of such
- tales down here. It still happens in this day and age in countries where
- the inmense majority of the wealth is held by a very few families while the
- rest live in misery and squalor. If government does not intervene and we
- left them to "private charity" they die. Simply as that. It is that way,
- and it has always been that way...
- Now, the government may be doing a poor job now. Let's
- restructurate. But to deny the need for government welfare programs is
- ridiculous and goes against what we have learned throughout recent human
- history. It's either welfare or revolution and forced socialism. Roosevelt
- and his people knew that.
-
- -Ramon
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