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"Ayn_R_Keey" <IAM@freedumb.gov> wrote:

>one of them there compassionate conservatives, aren't you?

Unfortunately, the sentiments expressed so far are pretty prevalent, and
it's not conservatives (compassionate or not) but vocal liberals who are
to blame.

Remember a few years back, when welfare-to-work reforms led SF (or was
it CA?) to create a program to train welfare recipients for work?
Welfare recipients were given basic clerical training, and taught how to
put together a resume, fill out an employment application, and go
through an interview. Remember that?

And what happened? Cranky liberals were soon complaining bitterly that
the program only (only!?!) prepared people for $9/hour jobs. They
declared the program a failure, and yet another example of this
country's war against the poor (hello?).

Do you think this endeared welfare recipients to the average citizen,
many of whom don't make what these welfare recipients were being
offered?

Let me give you another example: Prop N - Care Not Cash. While liberals
howl that Prop N won't replace the $360 the homeless get every month
with services of equivalent value, the citizenry at large can't get over
the fact that the city hands out $360 dollars a month to people whose
only qualification is that they don't have $360 dollars of their own.

Don't blame conservatives; it's liberals, with their entitlement
attitude and their generosity with other people's money, who are to
blame.