Kasz216 said:
mrstickball said:
Jesus would place a high premium on giving to the poor as a civil act, and not a governmental one. Jesus never once stated that it was anyone else's responsibility to help the poor other than your own.
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I would if I was making over $250,000.00 a year. As it is, I stand to benefit from Obama's social programs. When I was working at a fast food restaurant and paying for company health insurance that wouldn't come anywhere near paying for blood work, a catscan, and a colonoscopy, I really could have used some subsidized government healthcare. Mccain's plan was going to provide for a $2,000.00 tax credit for health insurance, but would that really have covered anything serious? And, it is difficult to pay $4.00 a gallon for gas, drive eighty miles to work each day, for just eight dollars a day, then buy healthcare, videogames, take a hot chick to a movie. If the government wants to help me out with all that I'm fine with it. Bush sure didn't seem like he was very interested in doing so.
First off, your making a very stupid decision to drive 80 miles to work, and especially at $4.00 a gallon. Move closer to work, or find another job. Furthermore, taking a hot chick to a movie and buying video games are entirely luxury purchases, and are not needed to maintain life. Complain however you want, but we can't help it if you make poor decisions on work, and how you spend your discretionary income.
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Amusingly as well... I know people who do everything on his list at a remarkably similar budget.
Hell I know a lady who does much more then that with 9 dollars an hour working 34 hours a week.
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Tell me about it. Most of the people my age (20-23) that earn between $8/hr and $15/hr make rediculously incompotent decisions with their income. They buy useless things that really don't help your life (games, movies, expensive food), all while accumulating debt, and continue to make poor choices on reducing factors that reduce wealth. It's very upsetting at my age when I worked an $8/hr job and managed to buy an apartment complex and house with the income, put money in the bank, and give money away to my debt-ridden family. Heck, 3 weeks ago, I handed someone $3,000 to pay off their credit card debts before they got taken to court :-\ That was a fun thing to do.
