We must eliminate Chavez.

[mburbank]

You know, that sucks, and I'm genuinely sorry for your uncle, but that's not even remotely what I'm talking about and the fact you don't know it just demonstrates how out of your depth you are. I hope the economy gets better, I hope he gets good work again and I hope things don't get worse. I'd love it if there were a saftey net for people like him if things do get worse, but as a single, healthy man, he can forget it or go to a homeless shelter or a food pantry if there's room. I think we could do a whole hell of a lot better for folks like your uncle, but there's folks around way worse off right now.

Now if he was married, his wife was also laid off and they had two kids, lived in an overpriced shitty apartment where the rent had almost doubled in the last year, had no health insurance and maxed out credit cards just buying kids clothes and food and were one bad month away from being homeless, THEN you'd be where I'm talking about. And that's where a lot of pople are right now, people who haven't done aanything worse than your uncle. I think as a society we should look out for people like that, and I think as a society we should be required to look out for people like that. Why? Because that's one of the things human beings gather into a society for. Because we know we can't count on each other individually. Left to our own devices too many of us don't care or just don't see. That's human nature. Society is what we've invented to try to protect ourselves from each other.