Now, I hear many an argument about why we shouldn't be paying part of our taxes to poor people. Apparently they're lazy, and are just trying to suck off the system, and not a one are genuinely poor for a reason. They made a mistake early on in life, and that sucks for them, cause we sure as heck don't want to help them out.
Let me tell you about a few of the poor people I know. I know a kid who works his butt off every minute of the day, and doesn't even have a penny to his name. One of his parents got screwed over by doctors by doing the surgery wrong, causing a physical disability. The other one is mentally disabled. Why doesn't he have a penny to his name? Well, somewhere along it was decided that if you became poor, you'd have to be stuck being poor for the rest of your life unless you were incredibly lucky enough to run into the right friends, have the right idea, and start some sort of business that everybody liked.
The amount of poor families isn't quite the amount of new ideas a society can throw money at, at the same time. They can't pay for food, and they definitely can't pay for a new anything if any of their stuff breaks. They are stuck. Why don't we help them? Well, sometimes you'd rather fix someone else's problem. Sometimes you find the pictures of starving African children more appealing to your wallet then someone starving next door.
Sometimes we decide that it's far more important to mock our President by calling him a Nazi, then to get over ourselves and say "Hey, those guys need help, and they live right down the street from me."
We call it socialism, but what's so bad about helping out your neighbor by giving up a small percentage of your paycheck so they can buy enough food to eat, and manage in society, and maybe even manage to be able to give a bit of their own money to help out someone in need.
Who's truly the lazy one?
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