too dirty to know what color he was
I'm writing this before I open my bag of Hardee's, and I apologize for this upcoming rant...
anyhoo
At the drive in tonight a man was waiting at the pick up window and as I pulled up, walked toward my car and told me that he just ate lettuce from the trash can. Everybody gets confronted by homeless people from time to time, and I'm no exception. Usually I feel bad then I move on because they're asking everybody for money, not just me. Only thing is this guy didn't ask me for money - or for food. He asked for a cigarette and then told me I should never start smoking since that's the reason I didn't have one. I rolled up to the window for my turn and asked if they would put an extra fry on my bill for the man but they said they had him taken care of. Soon enough they brought him food and a drink and he was on his way, after some polite back-and-forth.
I got my food, drove off and said goodbye to him and saw him scoff - I use this word because he actually SCOFFED the food down. He grabbed in his bag a random thing that could have been a part of a sandwich, a bunch of fries -- anything -- and stuffed it in his mouth.
So I just wonder why this is allowed to happen.
Last night I was with some Samford students, Dylan as well. They're very nice people, this was the first time I had met most of them. But no doubt I can assume, if it is fair to assume I don't know, that they all come from relatively well off families and don't have much to worry - or think - about money issues. So it was ironic that what we discussed last night was welfare and "socialist" securities such as healthcare.
Without arguing too much but just to present this argument to the table, how can people support the intervention of another societies welfare (i.e. war in Iraq) and then conjugately swear that back home no social intervention is necessary and people should be left to their own uprising / downfall (homelessness, healthcare.)
In closing, how many of you know what it's like to be on Welfare and also know what it's like to have money? Well, without welfare I wouldn't enjoy what luxuries my parents provide me today. Without welfare I wouldn't belong to the upper income bracket in this country, paying more in taxes than what 97% of the people in the united states earn in a year. And also, how many of you have healthcare? How many of you pay for that healthcare? If you don't pay for your healthcare, but have it, you're on a form of social welfare and you're a living contradiction if you don't believe in this such system. Ooops, made an argument, sorry.
gooodnight
anyhoo
At the drive in tonight a man was waiting at the pick up window and as I pulled up, walked toward my car and told me that he just ate lettuce from the trash can. Everybody gets confronted by homeless people from time to time, and I'm no exception. Usually I feel bad then I move on because they're asking everybody for money, not just me. Only thing is this guy didn't ask me for money - or for food. He asked for a cigarette and then told me I should never start smoking since that's the reason I didn't have one. I rolled up to the window for my turn and asked if they would put an extra fry on my bill for the man but they said they had him taken care of. Soon enough they brought him food and a drink and he was on his way, after some polite back-and-forth.
I got my food, drove off and said goodbye to him and saw him scoff - I use this word because he actually SCOFFED the food down. He grabbed in his bag a random thing that could have been a part of a sandwich, a bunch of fries -- anything -- and stuffed it in his mouth.
So I just wonder why this is allowed to happen.
Last night I was with some Samford students, Dylan as well. They're very nice people, this was the first time I had met most of them. But no doubt I can assume, if it is fair to assume I don't know, that they all come from relatively well off families and don't have much to worry - or think - about money issues. So it was ironic that what we discussed last night was welfare and "socialist" securities such as healthcare.
Without arguing too much but just to present this argument to the table, how can people support the intervention of another societies welfare (i.e. war in Iraq) and then conjugately swear that back home no social intervention is necessary and people should be left to their own uprising / downfall (homelessness, healthcare.)
In closing, how many of you know what it's like to be on Welfare and also know what it's like to have money? Well, without welfare I wouldn't enjoy what luxuries my parents provide me today. Without welfare I wouldn't belong to the upper income bracket in this country, paying more in taxes than what 97% of the people in the united states earn in a year. And also, how many of you have healthcare? How many of you pay for that healthcare? If you don't pay for your healthcare, but have it, you're on a form of social welfare and you're a living contradiction if you don't believe in this such system. Ooops, made an argument, sorry.
gooodnight