"Good Poor, Bad Poor"
Good Poor, Bad PoorBy TIMOTHY EGAN at the NY Times
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/20/opinion/egan-good-poor-bad-poor.html?_r=0
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When a million Irish died during the Great Famine of the 1850s, many in the English aristocracy said the peasants deserved to starve because their families were too big and indolent. The British baronet overseeing food relief felt that the famine was God’s judgment, and an excellent way to get rid of surplus population. His argument on relief was the same one used by Rand Paul.
“The only way to prevent the people from becoming habitually dependent on government is to bring the operation to a close,” Sir Charles Trevelyan said about the relief plan at a time when thousands of Irish a day were dropping dead from hunger.
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“The kid was dealt a bad hand,” Bloomberg said. “I don’t know why. That’s just the way God works. Sometimes some of us are lucky, and some of us are not.”
And in that, he echoed my mother at Christmas. Luck is the residue of design, as the saying has it. But the most careful lives can be derailed — by cancer, a huge medical bill, a freak slap of weather, a massive failure of the potato crop. Virtue cannot prevent a “bad hand” from being dealt. And making the poor out to be lazy, or dependent, or stupid, does not make them less poor. It only makes the person saying such a thing feel superior.
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were assholes about the tragic Irish Famine. The ugliness of those who got theirs didn't start with the Kocholes.
"The House, refuge of the shrunken-heart caucus, has passed a measure to eliminate food aid for four million Americans, starting next year.."
"Shrunken" to non-existent, applegrove.. 
Their billionaire donors need tax breaks(like they need another a$$hole, btw).
Mele Kalikimaka, applegrove 
Yes, I googled the "vacances" part.. 
Are you French speaking Canadian?
I was in line today at a Bamboo store and I asked the people in front of me where they were from.. they said "Canada" and I asked which part.. "Saskatchewan"! Minus 40 degrees Celsius! 
They were so happy to be on holiday in Kaua'i. 
They were a whole family and their boyfriends.. very funny. I was laughing at what they were joking around about before I got curious where they were from.
different languages and cultures.. and accents!
I've found it to be a long string of crimes in most cases.
When bad behavior is rewarded, this is what you get.
& R
