I can't help noticing it's almost always the people with no money, usually college students and that sort, who declare that
we have to give
our money to other people.
Silly person talks about "the poor" as if they're some separate species living a mysterious existance that we can't understand. They're just regular people and I understand them well enough from my own experience. The family of a childhood friend living 4 houses down the street was scamming welfare and lived better than mine did. The father put a bed in a shed 10 feet from their trailer and the now "fatherless family" was then elegible for welfare benefits. With 6 german shepards living inside the trailer and barking like hell as well as the chain smoking, toothless mother and 3 kids I've little doubt he slept there too. The daughter, as usual, got pregnant at 16 and started her own career as a welfare recepient. None of them were any less capable of working than the average non-welfare recepient, they just adopted a tradition of welfare dependancy and kept it.
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think about what sort of society we would live in without tax-funded financial support for the poor.
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You don't have to think about it, you can read about it from a subject called history. Tax funded welfare is only about 70 years old in the US and society before then was just fine.
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Many advocate an attitude of punishing the poor for being poor.
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Give some examples of this. Or your source; far up your ass no doubt. Incredible even you can post something so stupid.
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the wealthy and the middle class often must live in wealthy ghettos, to isolate themselves from the desperate poor. Is that what we want in our nations? It seems to me that there is real cause and effect here: strangle the poor, and destroy one's own quality of life.
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LMAO. You actually think getting rid of the poor destroys quality of life? Why aren't the middle class and wealthy moving into inner city ghettos then? Can't you understand how ridiculous that statement is?
Some points of gross ignorance:
Socialism has nothing to do with religion.
http://www.answers.com/socialism&r=67
Capitalism has nothing to do with religion.
http://www.answers.com/capitalism&r=67
I hear often enough that more than a billion people live on less than a dollar a day; a few dollars a day probably includes half of humanity. There's nothing tragic about being poor and there's no reason to artificially raise their standard of living to match wealthier people when they can't do it themselves. Remove financial incentives to have children and maybe give free birth control and their numbers will stop swelling, but that will take away political power from the slimeball liberals so don't expect that to happen any time soon.