05-13-2016, 07:20 AM
(05-12-2016, 09:56 PM)SunsetBengal Wrote: Not in favor of simply sending a check to everyone. Many do not even need it, many don't deserve it, there are ones who do, but how to discern them?
I am fully in favor of anyone in need to be willing to do community service, and get a living wage for it. I'll give you one good example of how they could serve a valuable purpose to the general public. Cleaning drainage structures. The EPA and UDOs of the United States have developed the most elaborate system of storm water drainage. However, after installation, these structures become clogged with debris, and are rendered useless. If we put some of these people in need to use learning about the drainage system, and how to maintain it, they could have a valuable service, with which to earn a living wage.
You do realize you sound like a Franklin Delano Roosevelt Democrat now, right?
Your plan is a good one, and your example a good one, I am just rather surprised to hear you suggest it. Putting people to work in this fashion helped to end the Great Depression, and helped build many of America's roads and public buildings. Just brace yourself: people are about to start calling you a communist.
JOHN ROBERTS: From time to time in the years to come, I hope you will be treated unfairly so that you will come to know the value of justice... I wish you bad luck, again, from time to time so that you will be conscious of the role of chance in life and understand that your success is not completely deserved and that the failure of others is not completely deserved either.
