Jeff said:
Ben Franklin had a concept of "the deserving poor." I don't know of any religious system that does not mandate taking care of the widows, orphans, and strangers. Jeff is saying the same type of thing above. Are there any people who have opportunity and advantages like education, but who choose not to avail themselves of these opportunities? Are there folks who just like to be indolent and like to live off the work of others? If those folks exist (and I believe most of you feel they do not exist), are our responsibilities different toward them than toward "the deserving poor"?
. ........a growing realization that there are just people that need to be taken care of not because they are lazy and don't want to work but because they have lacked opportunity, have had little to no hope and along the course of human history many have been systematically disadvantaged.
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