The Counter to Rips Posts :)

[DiabloTX]

Next time I see you on the street corner with a t-shirt of S. Johansson and a sign that says you need a beer, well, I'll toss one at ya!  It'll only be half consumed!

lawlz

[JB88]

better be driving fast.

 

[DiabloTX]

Good thing I drive a noodle extender!

Oh! Badda-bing!

[JB88]

hey. 

you said it.  not me.

you know you can get it in a bottle now right?

 

[DiabloTX]

No, I had no idea...

Figures, I'm happy with mine though.

[eskimo2]

I thought you meant this:

The Counter to Rips Posts :

[SD67]

[DREDIOCK]

If  it were up to me. the Gov wouldn't be sending ANY money to soup kitchens or homeless shelters at all.
While a certain amount of social programs are needed they should have a very finite time limit and should be designed in a way as to help people to help themselves. And not just some open ended freebie.

Starvation is a great motivator
If you must have government paid for soup kitchens. Tie them to some sort of rendered service.
In other words.. You want food and a cot for a night. Then go clean up the litter along the side of the road.
Or attend this school that will teach you a trade.
Then they are at least contributing something or we are at least investing into their future where they may eventually become active taxpaying participants in society.

All the respect in the world for vets.
But it seems to me that for every vet who has such problems they cant cope with. There are thousands more who do manage.
So it can be done.
If you want to be christian about it. I can answer the question of
"Jesus loves him so much then why won't Jesus fix his mind, help him sleep and get a job?"
There is an old saying that holds as true today as the first day it was ever uttered
"The lord will help those who are willing to help themselves"

This would explain why there are allot of vets who do manage.
Even though it may not be easy
They were willingot help themselves.

But I will agree. More should be done for our vets.
They at least earned it.

There are also social programs already on the books they can take advantage of. Social security and Disability.
I've known people who have managed to live on both without becoming homeless are having to eat at soup kitchens

Furthermore. Soup kitchens do not need government funding. With a stroke of the pen they can ease regulations on restaurants donating left over food to soup kitchens.
Perfectly good food that they have to throw away at the end of each day (My sister in law runs a luncheonette)

If any group. Democrat or republican believes they should follow the teachings of Jesus by helping the downtrodden.
Then by all means they should be allowed to do so.

Implementing long term government run social programs from taxpayer money is ALWAYS a huge mistake.
As the government proves to the observant time and time again. ANY program that is government run is typically top heavy in bureaucracy and anything but efficient.
That these aren't programs to help the poor and downtrodden.
These are programs to help and line the pockets of political bosses ,cronies and party contributors disguised as programs to help people.

I defy you to find me an extended list of government run programs that are efficient. Or where the majority of the money goes to the people that are supposed to be helped by them and not to the people running them.

A far better idea is rather then force the money out of peoples pockets. would be for tax break incentives for people to donate directly to the charity of choice in either monetary or material donations.
Extended social programs are nothing more then social bloatware
A government run anything isn't exactly world renowned as the epitome of efficiency

[Mojava]

 Not everything is as it seems, check this homeless guy out http://www.care2.com/news/member/913303548/507484

[lazs2]

sure is funny how "homeless" has a season..  like little ducks they come out in the spring and go away in the winter.    I guess the compassionate democrats aren't smart enough to notice.

they also seem to have missed the fact that the "old man at the grocery store" is 38 year old and far too young to have been to vietnam..  course..   they are products of the public school mess that they have created and continue to support so they really can't be expected to do the math.

lazs

[avionix]

Had a woman that was standing at one of the overpasses near where I live.  She would hold a sign and she was pregnant.  Went by here every day for a year and you know that baby never popped.  Longest pregnancy I have ever seen.  Most people aren't homeless by chance.  Majority have chosen that lifestyle.  We also have a large homeless population in St Petersburg, FL.  The city tried to move them at one point and all of the bleeding heart liberals would not let the city move them.  You drive to downtown and in the middle of a bueatiful park, you cannot walk without tripping over a homeless person sleeping.  This country ws built on the premise that you pick yourself up off of the ground, put your boots on and get to work for what you need.  Stop taking my money and giving it to people that don't deserve it.  Or better yet, let me say where my taxes go.

[slipknot]

Silat, do yourself a favor and don't compose any more stories. You have no concept of narrative flow.

That story ended, and its point was made, when the girl asked why the homeless guy doesn't earn his own money. Everything else was impotent wishy-washiness, searching yet never finding a conclusion as tight and complete as the one you'd already reached with the girl's honest, to-the-point question.

When she followed up with 'why doesn't he have a home?', a more honest answer would have been: 'because he's waiting for the democrats to build him one'.

[crockett]

You know it hit me the other day and I think we can solve all these problems once and for all.

Send all the "so called" Republicans that hate the way we do it here, to Afghanistan. I was thinking Afghan is the right wingers Utopia. Everyone has guns, everyone believes in god or they hang you. They pay no taxes and the govt does pretty much nothing for them. They can go play with their guns anytime they want it's gotta be the prefect place for a "so called" Republican. The added bonus is they hang gay people and thieves I mean how much better can you get?

I think I'm going to make a few travel brochures and start sending them out to all the card carrying "so called" Republicans..   

[SOB]

Oddly the counter is still working.  I figured it woulda dun busted past twenty thousand.

[crockett]

Added bonuses of Afghanistan.. houses are dirt cheap and some come with built in skylights. The country is also much closer to Israel, so sending what little tax money you might pay that way takes much less time. It's also much closer to Iraq and Iran, making it much easier to start new wars.