Illegal to Feed Homeless in Parks - Page 15

BigV · 08-03-2006, 05:49 PM

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.

MaggieL · 08-03-2006, 06:20 PM

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Originally Posted by BigV

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.

08-03-2006, 08:54 PM

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

richlevy · 08-04-2006, 07:07 PM

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Originally Posted by MaggieL

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

Well there's your loophole.

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It prohibits "providing food or meals to the indigent for free or for a nominal fee" in a city park and defines indigent as a person whom a reasonable ordinary person would believe to be entitled to county public assistance.

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.

MaggieL · 08-04-2006, 08:03 PM

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Originally Posted by richlevy

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.

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:

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I didn't know you were required to pay for things like that.

Not to worry...ACLU will tell us it's illegal to discriminate against the homeless. It's only legal to discriminate in their favor.

Spexxvet · 08-05-2006, 09:51 PM

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Originally Posted by MaggieL

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:
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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?

MaggieL · 08-06-2006, 07:42 AM

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Originally Posted by Spexxvet

Sure. Entitlements like subsidies for big oil companies...

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".

Spexxvet · 08-06-2006, 09:16 AM

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.

MaggieL · 08-06-2006, 09:51 AM

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Originally Posted by Spexxvet

Actually, I think it ended when the robber barons, and their ilk,...

Oh, puhleese...

Happy Monkey · 08-06-2006, 11:04 AM

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.

xoxoxoBruce · 08-06-2006, 04:02 PM

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 $.

9th Engineer · 08-09-2006, 12:44 AM

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?

wolf · 08-09-2006, 01:30 AM

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

We are being outbred.

Spexxvet · 08-16-2006, 06:07 PM

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Originally Posted by 9th Engineer

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?

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?

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

DanaC · 08-16-2006, 06:25 PM

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?

08-03-2006, 05:49 PM	#211
BigV Goon Squad Leader Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Seattle Posts: 27,063	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. __________________ Be Just and Fear Not.

08-06-2006, 09:16 AM	#218
Spexxvet Makes some feel uncomfortable Join Date: Dec 2005 Posts: 10,346	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. __________________ "I'm certainly free, nay compelled, to spread the gospel of Spex. " - xoxoxoBruce

08-06-2006, 11:04 AM	#220
Happy Monkey I think this line's mostly filler. Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: DC Posts: 13,575	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. __________________ _________________ \|...............\| We live in the nick of times. \| Len 17, Wid 3 \| \|_______________\| [pics]

08-06-2006, 04:02 PM	#221
xoxoxoBruce The future is unwritten Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 71,105	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 $. __________________ The descent of man ~ Nixon, Friedman, Reagan, Trump.

08-09-2006, 12:44 AM	#222
9th Engineer Bioengineer and aspiring lawer Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Pittsburgh Posts: 872	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? __________________ The most valuable renewable resource is stupidity.

08-03-2006, 08:54 PM	#213
rkzenrage Guest Posts: n/a	They are playing Us & Them.... a very nasty game.

08-09-2006, 01:30 AM	#223
wolf lobber of scimitars Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: Phila Burbs Posts: 20,774	Those too stupid or ill equipped to keep minimum wage jobs tend to reproduce more than smart, gainfully employed people. We are being outbred. __________________ wolf eht htiw og "Conspiracies are the norm, not the exception." --G. Edward Griffin The Creature from Jekyll Island High Priestess of the Church of the Whale Penis

08-16-2006, 06:25 PM	#225
DanaC We have to go back, Kate! Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Yorkshire Posts: 25,964	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?

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