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Originally Posted by Paul Markham
I hope this never happens to you sperbonzo even though you think it's a great idea.
I can see your "I'm all right Jack and fuck you" attitude coming through.
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Actually I give to charities, I help friends who are in trouble, (sometimes having them stay with us for months when a disaster has hit their lives)... and I myself have been through some really really hard times where I had nothing and I was on the street. This has nothing to do with not wanting to help people. The more that government is in charge of people, the less that people will be wont to help on their own. The average person in the US gives 9 times more to charity than the average EU citizen, because in the EU the government is expected to cover everything.
I think that private groups helping people are far far better at it than government will ever be, much more efficient, and much faster in their response times... I think that that the whole world will be much healthier when people realize that the nature of government is to grow more and more, to centralize power more and more, and to control us more and more. Sometimes that control is buried in the name of "helping you". You should watch "Illegal Everything", by John Stossel.
Someone made a post about people being "allowed to build a house on a hill". I can see a day when the government will be able to make those decisions all the time. If the government is covering your risks, then that gives them the right to tell you where you can build.
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