David -


 RS>> If someone wanted to spend their money a certain way, who 
 RS>> should decide HOW they spend it?  You seem to think that you 
 RS>> should, David. 

 DD> When I am one of the suckers paying into the fund doled out to these
 DD> bludgers to assist them live, I think that does give me some say.

You are begging the question here, David.

 RS>> Regardless of the morality of this, there is 
 RS>> simply no mechanism in place to determine how the unemployed 
 RS>> should/not spend their money. 

 DD> There is! Cut the dole out.  Give these people community work and pay
 DD> them for that work.  Then they are earning the money, they can do with
 DD> it as they please.

An illogical response to my point above.

 DD> Of course another option is food stamps. Don't pay them in money, feed
 DD> them!

Ummm... yep, sure thing.

 RS>> I believe that if they want to 
 RS>> go without some things in order to run a BBS or whatever, 
 RS>> then that is their prerogative. Not mine, not yours, theirs.

 DD> What about the git complaining about how his dole payments don't go far
 DD> when he has 4 kids to feed, bills to pay and a BBS to run.

(A) I don't know that he is a 'git'.

(B) I am not here to defend how people choose to spend their
    unemployment benefits. I may or may not agree with the way
    people spend their money. So?

(C) You are not here to tell them how to spend their unemployment
    benefits.

(D) I like using consecutive uppercase letters inside parentheses. 8^)

 DD>>> Jobs DO exist in the REAL WORLD.  Quite a proportion of the 
 DD>>> unemployed simply aren't interested in a job - it's just all 
 DD>>> to bloody hard.

 RS>> 'Quite a proportion'???

 RS>> Obviously. Sir Humphrey Appleby could not have put it 
 RS>> better. 8^)

 DD> What do you wnat be to do, state a finite number?

A statement like 'Quite a proportion' sounds nice, but doesn't really
mean anything at all - it doesn't give any idea whatsoever of the
figure involved.  If it had been the word 'some', that would have been
more likely.  'Quite a proportion' is really 'some' trying hard to
sound like a larger number.


Cheers...

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