The Big Work Around...

The following is a direct response to what was written here...

http://www.nicolavincent-abnett.com/2016/02/from-each-according-to-his-ability-to.html



Phew, challenging article Nik..!
I read this one and thought, jeeze, I know I'm busy, I know I said I was gonna retire my blog site...
But, but, but..!

You make some logical points and I liked 'em.  I especially liked it when you said "You know that I’m going somewhere with this, don’t you?"

My perspective is not all that different but it is a little more mathematical.  I put the pros on one side of the scale and the cons on the other and see which one is slightly heavier, then I bash that scale with my hammer and call for a re weigh.
Should we help others?  Sure, I don't need quotes from some "holy" book to tell me I should be a good person.
Should we let others think that if something is virtually "free" that they shouldn't take..?

Humility is one of the first things that leaves us, as a society, apparently.  I don't know where it goes, I still have mine tucked in a drawer somewhere and I've been homeless and needed someone else to feed me on "many" occasions.
I happen to be a whole lot of underemployed and my family collects the much debated food stamps (this is basically where the government gives you free food, no alcohol or cigarettes but pop and chips, you got it).
There's little or no regulation, no one checking up on you to see that you actually spent your allowance on food.  Many people will sell their stamps at half price for the cash they need for their addictions.
I've never sold stamps but I know that it's a very popular perspective.  You need money to pay the electric bill, all the pop and chips in the world won't be accepted by my electric company.

Should I work really hard to make just enough money to afford my own food when the government will surely hand out more after more..?
(This is another large reason I can't support my own country's government...)
If my choices are, work at the restaurant over the hot fryer for eight hours a day, put my kid in a day care where they'll treat him like a farm animal all day, every...
Or sit back and spend my food stamps with my kid in front of the tele, how hard is that to understand?
I can't look down on people for doin' what humans do.  We are naturally lazy people.  We won't work when we don't have to (well, most of us won't eh, where's my carrot when I need it...)

Where is the common ground and come on Bishop, there has to be somethin' positive about this situation.  Isn't there..?
Nopes, I can't find one.  We want to help people, we want to be "decent" but the majority of people will abuse the system and we can't pay enough workers to stop in at people's homes during dinner time, to see if they're spending their stamps in approved ways.

If we put a time limit on how long some people can continue to collect (much like with our current system of unemployment benefits), one side screams "how can you do that you uncaring monster.?!)
And we have to drive by the panhandlers on the sidewalks with their cardboard signs.  And their dirty sad faces and who wants that...

I'm all for cuttin' people off completely, no more help from the government.  Period.  There might be some revolts, crime might skyrocket as people must steal but hey, much like in nature, if there's not enough food to go 'round, you either move to somewhere else or, you die.
Seems like the death option is sound.  Overpopulation is a big cause of unemployment and can we really expect to make more babies than jobs every year, indefinitely?
The system must break at some point right.  I'm surprised it hasn't broken already but then, look at our national debt (almost twenty two trillion, yeps thats a "T" for trillions, everybody say it now...)

The alternative, remember my math, the scales.  Is that we crank out a crap more jobs, possibly creating a "check up on your food stamp usage at random times" taskforce.
Or, we move to somewhere we there won't be anyone that will take advantage.
But like I said, most humans will take advantage huh.
Your choices, our choices, are to pay for others when they don't deserve it, or live alone in the woods in an empire of one (possibly two if you can stand your spouse and their laziness).

We, or I, can't blame the little people with empty bellies.  And we, or I again, can't blame the empire of one's who hoard all their money and find clever ways to avoid paying for the rest of the world's irresponsibility.
Way to pull me out of my slump Smiley..!