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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There is a level of subsistence and then there are the extras.  Poor must eat, we should feed them.  Poor must have shelter, we should provide them shelter, poor need education.  We should provide them shelter.  I'll even go so far as they need healthcare, so we should provide that and childcare, within reason.

However, in an effort to make sure the poor don't feel different because they are poor, we provide them money and give them discretion how to spend it.  Poor people need basics to subsist and education to succeed not cash in hand.  I am sorry, but sending a check and saying spent it on what you want is stupid.  And if you don't want make someone poor feel bad and you therefore give them granite countertops and gym memberships, they have no incentive to not be poor anymore.

I am making sweeping generalizations, but the point is I work hard and I don't have granite countertops, a gym membership and I'll paying for my kids education for years after they go to school or they will. I am tired of being told I need to take care of other people's kids too. I worked my way out of the poverty level and others can too. And yes, I got subsisitence help from the government and I am ok with that.  I kept food on the table when mom worked after dad died.  But granite countertops are ridiculous. Helping the poor has gotten so derailed. [/quote]

Dude. It i snot like FFX County is going into a poor person's house and installing granite countertops. They are working in conjunction with several condo and apartment communities(that may or may not have granite in them)  to provide subsidized housing sprinkled throughout the county to avoid the problems of crime and lack of upward mobility that come with grouping all lower income people in projects or ghettos.

Can you not see that? Can you not see how it is better to not segregate the poor? AS for your straw man of a 24 hour gym: 1. it will help prevent the obesity problem you decry and 2. It is not like a Lifetime membership--it is the free gym at the housing complex in most cases.

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I don't give a rats patoot how you want to rationalize things. The citizens of FFX county should not be subsidizing granite countertops and 24 hour gym membership for (as I said earlier) "some" of the folks receiving government subsidized housing. I don't care if the condo builders threw the countertops in for free. It is ridiculous and we are paying for it. [/quote]

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