if a murder believes murdering is good.. and someone tries to stop him from murdering and he fights to murder more.. is the murderer brave for standing up for cause?
There is no such thing as property ownership: bingo for most of the country however, in Texas and Fl...homestead laws trump. So, unless you really fuck up in Texas and get behind in taxes...even then the Gov has a hard time taking your land. Now keep in mind. This is if you own it outright. Not leverged. Leverged land or home can be taken by lender. So, property ownership is a smoke screen for 90% of americans.
The murderer is a lunatic. Same with Terrorists and other other "warriors". Here us more Land of the Free stories for your weekend reading pleasure. http://foodfreedom.wordpress.com/2010/09/14/georgia-farmer-fined-5k-for-growing-too-many-veggies/ http://www.mindfully.org/Farm/2003/Everything-Is-Illegal1esp03.htm
LOL. Have gotten a look any of those public defenders lately? Some are good, no doubt, but the rest are easily bottom of the barrel as far as law graduates go. You go work for the public defenders office when no one else will hire you. Then you pray and hope you can get into the DA's office. As far as emergency care -- LOL there too. You'll get free care if you're homeless or broke but if you own any property you have to surrender it to get any kind of care. How many of those middle class unemployed have health care? Answer -- very few.
Land of the Free? I think you misread....this is the land of the FEE. You have to pay a fee for everything here or lose it. The rules of the game are only annoying to those that dont wish to play, or even read the rules. Most Americans think their property is chattel, when its not, which is why they get so upset when this type of thing happens. These rules though, whether you understand them or not, are the reason people in this country make on average over $23 per hour instead of $2 per day like 60% of the people in the world. Its hard for 99% to see the connection, but its there. Imagine if we just let people do what they wanted with their property...we would have poor people living crammed close together in cement block houses like in 3rd world countries. There is a reason that America is the land of milk & money.
(Reuters) - A Florida tent city for hundreds of homeless people lies at the end of a dead-end street, but residents say they have not given up hope of a better life despite the U.S. economic downturn. The Pinellas Hope camp, 250 single-person tents in neat rows on land owned by the Catholic Diocese of St. Petersburg in a wooded area north of the city, has room for about 270 and has been filled to capacity since it opened two years ago. "I could open the gates and have over 500 people," said Sheila Lopez, the chief operating officer for Catholic Charities at the St. Petersburg diocese. The camp has a food hall, bathrooms and showers, a laundry room and a few computers for residents to look for jobs and prepare resumes. "This is a great place to be. It gives us a great opportunity," said Alex, a resident who declined to give his last name. "We have a safe place to live. It sure beats sleeping on the street." The number of homeless people in the United States, one of the wealthiest countries in the world, is difficult to pin down, advocacy groups say, because most people are homeless for only a short period of time. The National Alliance to End Homelessness estimates about 675,000 people are homeless on any given night during a one-month period. Between 2.5 million and 3.5 million Americans experience homelessness for at least one night in a year. The alliance said it expects more than 1 million people to become homeless as a result of the current recession. THE END IS NOT NEAR Tent cities have sprouted across the United States and advocates believe they could represent the leading edge of a wave of homelessness in the coming months as U.S. unemployment, nearing 10 percent, rises. "I don't think we've begun to see the end of it. I think the challenges remain significant and they remain in front of us," said Ron Book, chairman of the Miami-Dade County Homeless Trust, where calls to a homeless hotline have quadrupled in the last year. Florida, where unemployment has soared as the recession put out of work thousands of people employed on construction sites during the housing boom, has nearly 50,000 homeless, according to the alliance. Nearly 6,500 of those are in the Tampa area. Asked about the proliferation of tent cities at a news conference in March, U.S. President Barack Obama said it was "not acceptable for children and families to be without a roof over their heads in a country as wealthy as ours." He cited his jobs programs and spending on infrastructure as ways of combating the problem. In some places, tent cities are discouraged. In Seattle, for example, authorities arrested and moved homeless people from a tent encampment -- called Nickelsville as a protest of Mayor Greg Nickels' policies -- on city land last fall. Some of those people have recently returned.
we would have poor people living crammed close together in cement block houses like in 3rd world countries. ----------------------- You mean like an inner city housing project? Humans (Americans), sorted by income?
Most people who are hired for defense work privately are no better than public defenders. The only difference is they typically have less experience and are less likely to be ideologically motivated, which many public defenders are. Now if you are talking the top 3% of the population who can hire a high priced specialist, sure, they have a small leg up. Yet even there it is usually less than they realize. As for emergency care... My point is the ambulance drivers do not check for proof of ability to pay, and if you can't then they turn around and let you die in the street, as the other poster suggested. Emergency care is different from, "health care" in general.
This is what "public support" SHOULD be... people in this and similar situations should be "provided for but uncomfortable" so that they are motivated to take responsibility for their own lives. Now, we need to round up all illegals and deport them... so that Americans looking for a job can get one as a starting point. (For you Lefties who want to jump down my throat now... I'm a firm believer in the principle.... "you are entitled to what you earn for yourself.. nothing more".)
This is the kind of thinking which caused a great part of our economic mess... the Leftist spew that "housing is a RIGHT"... Of course that's a message most government tit-suckers want to hear, but it's economically false.