The difference, and the cost between right and wrong....

I agree. You know, no matter how much this country says we have changed, it isn't that much. Upper class and middle class are still the ones respected and admired. Poor people, have nothing.. and when something does happen to them, the goverment and economy wont care as much as they would if a famous person like Steve Urwin (sp?) died. Well. I guess it shows how screwed up our nation is. (sorry for the language).

-ScreenplayOfDesire.

You can't put a dollar value on human life.

The government should stay out of the lives of people. If you do not have insurance to protect your family (because you can't afford it or are too callous to care...or for any other reason) it is not the governments (hence the tax payers....you and I) responsibility to provide for them.

The rich should not have to give to the poor. The poor should not be expected to carry the burden of funding the government. A flat tax, with no exemptions would solve that.

We have become a society that expects others to do for us...to take care of us...to provide for us. We have lost accountability. When those planes hit the WTC, it was not the governments fault, the employers fault or any one elses but the perpetrators of it. Yet, so many felt that the employer should pay...the government should pay....why?

I know that many will not agree with me, so help me understand your point of view, in an educated manner, as I have not had anyone explain it to me in a way that I could fathom....I usually get emotional rhetoric....show me like I was five.

Peace

I agree with you bob.

I myself as a High School Student at the time of 9/11 along with a club that I was in started a fundraiser for the 9/11 victims, we raised over 80,000.

When Katrina hit, I was a Senior in High School at that point, I along with the same club did another fundraiser, we made over 50,000 and donated a trailer filled with food and supplies, we drove down and gave it to a family.

Every helping hand helped for both of these major impacts on the U.S.A.

Humm. Both the schools I attended, raised nothing for anyone but themselves.

-ScreenplayOfDesire.

I watched the documentary by Spike Lee the other week..its called"When The Levees Broke"I was appaled watching all those ppl fight to be saved and nothig being done to help. What, did our government think it was all a mirage? Most of the people who left Loisiana will not go back, and who could blame them? And anyone who says it wasn`t a race thing better wake up and smell the coffee. Just another blaring example of our president`s leadership..or lack of I should say.

It's not just the victims of a catastrophy that is shunned upon. It's happening to people everywhere. I don't know if this is the place to get on my soapbox of not, Bob, but let me take a few minutes to relate something that happened here in a city that I live close to.

A woman, from the poor side of town, got a call one night from the police to let her know that her 9 year old daughter, who had been missing for 3 days may have been found and that she needed to come and identify the body. Unfortunately, it was her daughter; and she went to work writing petition after petition to get stricter laws for the perpitrators of rape and murder of children. The guilty party only got 7 years. She worked for a year without any luck. The City refused to waver, because they claimed she was a victim of her circumstances. They didn't deem her worthy of any special consideration. But just as the city didn't waver, neither did she. No change was made. Victim of her circumstances, My ass. Not 18 months later, another young girl was found. This one came from upper middle class and was the daughter of a friend of a city official. Immediately. grants and funding was set up to revise the laws and the guy who raped and killed this little girl is now serving a life sentence.

Where's the justice and compassion we, as Americans, claim to posess. Is not one human child as important as the next.

The same week as the man who was sentenced to 7 years [for raping and killing a 9 year old little girl] another couple was brought in on a cruelty to animals charges because they neglected to provide proper food, water, and lodging for their 13 dogs. They were sentenced to 10 years. Now mind you 6 of those were suspended, but can you imagine my outrage at the irony of this. When a human will get more time for neglect than murder.

Well, Like I said, I didn't know if this was the place to post this little bit of info, so I'll get off my soapbox. Thanks for letting me vent.

Jeannie

Timothy R. WE aren't talking about race. We are talking about class. There is a difference; ask anybody, even the government. Money is money, no matter who has it. And money is not discriminatory to itself.