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Wednesday, May 9, 2007
9:51 AM
The impulse is to think, well, if we provided a welfare state, people would just waste away and never work. But other countries that provide a social safety net don't suffer too much from that problem, and they have mechanisms to retrain people and put them back to work.
Sometimes when I have been really broke, I have been so busy working to pay my outrageous rent that I have been unable to take a step back and consider how I would be able to change my life. How am I going to save for retirement if I'm always spending everything on rent? It's a tough question to ask when you've been flipping burgers and scrubbing toilets until 3 in the morning.
Virginia Woolf wrote that all a girl needs to write poetry is 200 quid a month and a room with a view. Her point is, sometimes a person has the potential to contribute something new and beautiful to society, but they are so busy struggling that their vision is lost. Americans ought to consider that their culture will feed on itself and die unless they give poor people a break sometimes to sit back and learn from their experiences.
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There is always the obvious question of "how are you going to pay for it" that "liberals" don't ask as often as they should. "Conservatives" cry "tax and spend liberals!" and then borrow us into the ground for military contracts that put money in their pockets at our children's expense.The impulse is to think, well, if we provided a welfare state, people would just waste away and never work. But other countries that provide a social safety net don't suffer too much from that problem, and they have mechanisms to retrain people and put them back to work.
Sometimes when I have been really broke, I have been so busy working to pay my outrageous rent that I have been unable to take a step back and consider how I would be able to change my life. How am I going to save for retirement if I'm always spending everything on rent? It's a tough question to ask when you've been flipping burgers and scrubbing toilets until 3 in the morning.
Virginia Woolf wrote that all a girl needs to write poetry is 200 quid a month and a room with a view. Her point is, sometimes a person has the potential to contribute something new and beautiful to society, but they are so busy struggling that their vision is lost. Americans ought to consider that their culture will feed on itself and die unless they give poor people a break sometimes to sit back and learn from their experiences.
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Tuesday, May 1, 2007
6:21 PM
Social Services
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