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Thanks, maybe I will pick it up.

Just want to make a point on your last paragraph. I agree but at the same time I don't see any reason why we need to demonize the people who don't know what to do. Whether what they are doing is right or wrong, we're better off not placing blame on them either.



don't see any reason why we need to demonize the people who don't know what to do.

Maybe if someone had demonized them a little earlier, they wouldn't be so worthless right now.


Just my opinion but I think your statement is pretty immature. It seems rather that for some reason you want to put them down and I don't believe its because you think it will help them.

Let them be responsible for themselves. It doesn't help you to criticize others.


Let them be responsible for themselves.

If they were responsible for themselves, they would be working or starving right now. However, they are on unemployment. As a taxpayer, I'm partly subsidizing their donut and lotto habits. That gives me ample reason to criticize their behavior: if someone is spending your money, you're perfectly entitled to at least complain about how they spend it.


So they're forced to pay into the unemployment system through taxation but once they need to use some of that money, it's not ok?

Please, if you don't like the system, argue for a different system. You aren't going to change the behavior of these people by putting them down.


Or, they'd be even more "worthless" now.




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