The Partisan Divide on Issues

[Bob Butler 54]

(04-11-2020, 04:06 AM)Classic-Xer Wrote: My sisters fiance has some friends (business related) who live in New York. She told me what they have to say about the situation there is not good. One lives across the street from one of the hospitals. She told me that he's watched as they're loading bodies into a refrigerated truck that's parked at the hospital. I'm not denying that we have a major crisis going on now.

I didn't know that you have children. You've never mentioned children with me til now. I'm sorry about the issue with the daughter and granddaughter. I'm glad to see the grandmother stepped in and took over the responsibility of raising and providing for her. Just so you know, I have friends who are welfare recipients and friends who have children who are welfare recipient. So, I'm not a stranger to welfare recipients either. Like I said, they're every where these days. They are all single moms with kids who have never been married. We have lots of them these days. Guess what, access to free birth control ain't working. Oh, the fathers are often referred to as sperm donor. Like I've said, having it both ways isn't going to last forever.

The difference seems to be primarily that Rachel gets to throw MSNBC’s money around, thus she does not have to rely on what she gets from a friend of a friend of a friend.  You did come to the same conclusion.  The Coronavirus represents a serious threat and challenge.  The difference is that Rachel did not slander what you are saying because your political opinions vary.  What you said was out of pure ignorance and political bias.  Again, try watching blue media before you criticize it.  Insult and slander out of ignorance and bias does not come across well.

Welfare should not be a way of life.  People who abuse the system do exist.  I have encountered people with real needs getting not enough help more than I've encountered abusers.  Thus, we have different opinions of the system. It is just who you hang with.  I have no problem with attempts to stop the abuse.  Propose real solutions rather than sharing your pre judgements.  I would suggest providing help for a single mistake, but not provide a way of life.

I never married or had children, but my sister had a family, as did my nephew.  My mother had a saying, quoted at her funeral and which I have adopted.  "Glad to see them come, and glad to see them go."  With the current isolation policies, there is more emphasis on the first part.