In addition to those nasty people ladling out the soup. And the nasty people eating the soup. And the nasty people who support such an endeavor. Nasty nasty nasty.

Oh...sorry...the official description of the townspeople is "mean-spirited Republicans". My mistake.

They are playing Us & Them.... a very nasty game.

Well there's your loophole.

I'm sure the town council considers Republicans 'reasonable ordinary persons', and many of them don't think anyone is entitled to county public assistance.;)

At the very least illegal aliens should be able to eat for free.

Ah, but it doesn't say "think". It says "beleive". And Republicans *know* what an entitlement is...to many liberals it's like water to a fish:
Not to worry...ACLU will tell us it's illegal to discriminate against the homeless. It's only legal to discriminate in their favor.

Sure. Entitlements like subsidies for big oil companies. What's free food from a non-governmental organization compared to the Cheney administration's reducing environmental restrictions and subsidizing the largest corporate quarterly profits in the history of the world? :right:

There was a time when people were "entitled" to keep money they made. That appeared to end around the time Congressional Democrats started trying to call tax cuts "unfunded expenditures", in some odd perversion of Jimmy Carter's "zero-based bugeting" concept.

The new "zero base" was: however much the government took from you last time around...anything less than that became a "subsidy".

Actually, I think it ended when the robber barons, and their ilk, tried to keep their employees' salaries, and didn't care if those same employees died making the wealthy wealthier. If those in control of wealth were less gluttonous, there would be no need for labor unions, entitlements, and the like. It all stems from excessive greed.

Back in a week - TTFN.

Oh, puhleese...

The government has never taken as much in taxes as the robber barons did in "company stores", where you often came out owing more each month.

But the Robber Barons, while treating employees like dirt and politicians like Hummel Figurines to be collected, did however, care about the country.

Their current successors, the Fortune 500 CEOs, seem to care about nothing but personal gain. Not the employees, not the country and not the future of the company they head, or it's stockholders, past their personal wealth accruing tenure.
ME, with a capital $. :mad:

Why do you really care what happens to those people that are so unequiped to function that they cannot keep a minimum wage job? They will simply reproduce less then others and everything will balance itself. Hey, it works for every other animal, why not us?:neutral:

Those too stupid or ill equipped to keep minimum wage jobs tend to reproduce more than smart, gainfully employed people.

We are being outbred.

So it's ok that if you are unequipped to stop somebody from cutting your dick off, it's ok that you, then, will not be able to reproduce? Hey, it works for every other animal, why not you?:cool:

I care because, except for circumstances, that could be me. Or you. Or Maggie. There's very little sperating the homeless from the homed.

Spexxvet, you make a lot of sense. "There but for the grace of God go I".

I wonder how many of the people making these anti-poor laws, and those supporting them, consider themselves to be Christian?