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From: Tom (no email)
Date: Tue Oct 04 2005 - 12:02:35 EDT
Poverty by choice?
Oh, please!
Tom
----- Original Message -----
From: "RLESLIE" <>
Cc: <>
Sent: Tuesday, October 04, 2005 11:50 AM
Subject: Re: lv-ab: your risk, not mine
> Judy,
>
>
>>Doesn't society have some obligation to care for those unable to
>>care for themselves? Those who can barely afford basic living cannot
>>afford
>>to pay any form of insurance.
>>
>
> Aren't you talking about two different things: 1) those that truly can
> not help themselves 2) Those who choose not to help themselves and
> live in poverty
>
> I own a small manufacturing business and have found that I must usually go
> though 5-6 bad employees to find one good one. For the vast majority (but
> not all), poverty is a conscious choice.
>
> Roger
>
>
> Judy Rouse wrote:
>
>>Well, many of my relatives sustained damage in east Texas during Hurricane
>>Rita. Three of the elderly widows had their homes completely destroyed.
>>Not one of these relatives is looking for an insurance company to bail
>>them
>>out of their current homeless situations, nor are they looking for a
>>governmental handout. The most any of them hope for is the ability to
>>obtain some form of low interest loan to assist in their rebuilding. With
>>family roots in this hurricane zone going back to 1810, these folks
>>learned
>>generations ago that they need to be self-sufficient. It's their land;
>>it's
>>their problem. If it comes to it, they can fell their own trees and make
>>their own lumber to rebuild. I have seen some of them do it in years
>>past.
>>A low interest loan would make recovery easier and faster.
>>
>>But not all people are so fortunate to be strong-willed or physically
>>capable. Doesn't society have some obligation to care for those unable to
>>care for themselves? Those who can barely afford basic living cannot
>>afford
>>to pay any form of insurance.
>>
>>Judy
>>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From:
>>[mailto:] On Behalf Of Tim Holock
>>Sent: Tuesday, October 04, 2005 10:03 AM
>>To: ;
>>Subject: RE: lv-ab: your risk, not mine
>>
>>
>> Oh good! We're only a small step from moving the discussion to the
>> concept
>>of self-insurance. Bring it on!
>>
>>Tim
>>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From:
>>[mailto:] On Behalf Of Richard
>>Goodwin
>>Sent: Tuesday, October 04, 2005 9:36 AM
>>To: ;
>>Subject: Re: lv-ab: your risk, not mine
>>
>>You get my vote.
>>
>>We live in a strange society where "personal responsibility" means
>>*someone*
>>has to be responsible for me (not me, of course), and if there's a natural
>>disaster, well then *somebody* is to blame, and must be made to pay... :-)
>>
>>Dick
>>
>>
>>--- wrote:
>>
>>
>>>i assume this will not sit well with many of you (or others).
>>>
>>...
>>
>>
>>
>>
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