Ferrari Mailing List: Re: Barstool Economics (was RE: Are Ferraris Losing Their Good Looks? )

[philville dejazzd.com (philville]

   Compassion for my fellow man is NOT to support someone who doesn't
   bother to get an education,

   Do you really think that all who do not / or have not gotten  an
   education truly were given that opportunity as you may have been (
   given the opportunity)?

   ----- Original Message -----
   From: Ric Rainbolt <ricrainbolt [at] gmail.com>
   Date: Wednesday, November 12, 2008 7:51 pm
   Subject: Re: [Ferrari] Barstool Economics (was RE: Are Ferraris Losing
   Their Good Looks? )
   To: Phil Tegtmeier <philville [at] dejazzd.com>
   Cc: The FerrariList <ferrari [at] ferrarilist.com>
   > At 05:50 PM 11/12/2008, you wrote:
   >
   > >I fully agree our system is not fair and it really is a form of
   > charity>to a large extent, no question.  It seems the
   > arguments here are based
   > >on just the numbers, but what is missing here is any compassion
   > for your
   > >fellow man.  Sure I work hard to provide for my family and
   > I worry about
   > >their financial security and future but I also recognize that I
   > live in
   > >a society with other people and reading this I recall an old
   > adage my
   > >parents used to tell me: "the world needs ditch diggers too"...
   >
   > And therein is the basis of the problem. This is a worldwide
   > epidemic
   > of misconception, IMHO.
   >
   > Compassion for my fellow man is NOT to support someone who
   > doesn't
   > bother to get an education, or bother to not drink beer that
   > costs
   > more than his gross wages. Is it MY fault that he's a ditch
   > digger?
   > Perhaps I spent years honing my profitable technical skills
   > while he
   > skipped school and drank his way into his situation? Now I'm
   > literally robbed to pay for his misdeeds or lack of proactive
   > foresight.
   > It should for ME to decide when to allow the gift of charity to
   > emanate from MY compassion. I do NOT want to have money taken BY
   > FORCE by large bureaucracy and given willy-nilly to whoever
   > makes up
   > the best boo-hoo sob story. I've lived around and worked with
   > MANY
   > fully able-bodied individuals that were taking money from the
   > system
   > via systematic fraud (workmans comp, Medicare, etc.). Then
   > there's
   > the whole part about federal funding for all kinds of crap that
   > I
   > would NEVER EVER support if given a choice in the matter. I give
   > many
   > thousands to charities each year... ones of MY choosing.
   >
   > There is NO charity in someone taking my money to give to
   > someone
   > else (and in many cases, keep some for themselves for being so
   > righteous). That's playing shift-the-burden-of-my-guilt complex.
   > Far
   > too common.
   >
   > RR
   >
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