What would YOU do if YOU were in charge!!!

[mburbank]

Yeah, see, if I see someone who's choices are the street or cleaning toilets, I just feel bad. I can't imagine getting angry.

The street is pretty awful. I figure anyone there is in way worse shape than me, no matter what they're choosing. Wellfare is a pretty rough life as well. My wife works with Wellfare families every day, has for years, and while she's met a number of folks who cheat the system, she's yet to meet the mythic wellfare Queen living on lobster and watching a big screen TV. The live in horrible neighborhoods and housing and in my experience, while I guess some are 'shitfaces' many are not. Why should I hate them? Because maybe a penny pff each dollar I earn goes to them? I can't see it. I wish them well. I hope they make better choices, but they're welcome to my penny. They could even have a few more. There's so much more out there for me to get worked up about. Ken Lay, there's a guy I hate.

As far as low class jobs go, try supporting yourself wiithout parental help on minimum wage. No question, it's better than the street, but it's a hard, lousy life. Why do you guys concider a lack of compassion a good thing? Why are some of you actively proud of it, especially some of you who call yourselves religous? Did Jesus look at beggars and say "Why can you shitfaces get a JOB?!?"