Doug Hughes writes:
"Jean-Francois Avon" <jf_avon@citenet.net> wrote: [... regarding the unfortunate poor who Mr. Avon hates...]
You got to choose to do what is needed to live a better life. And most of them ain't doing what it takes.
Are you saying those poor people in rural West Virgina only live there because they are not trying hard enough to get out?
Yes he is. They are poor and it is all their fault. [flame-bait approaching...] There are two kinds of libertarians, those who hate the poor and those who don't. I always seem to meet the former, I am beginning to suspect the latter don't exist. [...]
Education is one thing (perhaps the only thing) that deserves to be subsidized in this country. I think that it should not be subsidized. If you feel like subsidising education, then by all means, do it. But why should you stick a gun in my back to do the same? What if I do not want to do the same as you?
Then you will be living in a country with lower education standards, increasing illiteracy, and a pretty pitiful base with a declining socio-economic structure. Are you arguing that people are not equal and those with more money should of necessity get better education?
Yes, he is. It is times like this that I must count myself among the pitchfork and torch wielding mob, if only because I have been cursed with a small amount of compassion for those who were not as lucky as I. BTW Mr. Avon, the reason we, the unruly mob of collectivists, socialists, and [insert libertarian/anarchist buzzword here] should stick a gun in your back and make you cough up money for education is because we can. If you don't want to do so, they why don't _you_ move? Are your feet cast in concrete blocks? Welcome to the real world. jim