When is it all too much?

[NoseyChickens]

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[agnes_day]

to be honest...this whole "punish the upper classes and make them give to the lower classes" mentality is destroying this country..whatever happened to working hard and making do with what you have in the first place? and as for other countries, we have all the same issues here in america, and there is no amount of money that will fix the corruption in haiti anyways. well, i guess there IS, but i doubt that your 20 bucks will make all the drug lords decide to be good boys and go home.
i prefer to spend my money on what makes me happy and my family happy.

 

[woodlumn]

it's not about "punishing the upper class," it's about being aware.

next thing you're going to say is that people who are going hungry just aren't working hard enough

the "I've got mine" mentality is pretty damaging, too.

 

[lacasitarojafarm]

Wow, don't owe anyone anything? No basic human dignity or baisc human rights? Wow.... I guess medicare/medicaid and unemployment and all the subsidy's that make our food so cheap in this country are just uneccesary handouts for people that are just lazy? I don't know. I was born here but I spent most of my life abroad and I prefer the "it takes a village" approach not just to children but to the infirm and elderly ... but each to his own I guess....

My chicken coop is built from an old barn that got toen down and an old cedar fence that was torn down. The maternials in it are mostly recycled. My husband and I have a family of three kids and a husband plys myself and while I admire the coops that took so much money and skill to make that's just not for me. Each to his own though.... We take pride in recycling as the materials didn't go into a dumpster and the chickens got a nice home and they help us recycle kictchen and harvest waste into yummy chicken dinners byt YMMV I guess.....

 

[agnes_day]

i have been hungry before..i have been homeless with 5 kids before, and guess what? i got myself out of that situation. i had no extended family, nothing. what i did have was the mentality that it wasn't societies job to provide for me, and that went way and beyond any handouts.
i think that if someone can afford a designer coop, or even a diamond collar for their dog..good for them!
even if you are poor on a regular basis..so what? work with the hand life dealt you. not everyone and everything is equal and any real attempts at that is nothing short of communism.

 

[woodlumn]

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so quick to make the jump from compassion to communism.

I thought this was a chicken forum, not a FOX forum, LOL.

 

[agnes_day]

ok, ok.

btw, my coop is an old packing crate my husband drug home. we did paint it using paint manufactured by sweatshop children however.

 

[slackwater]

This is a hard topic. For every person who is truly deserving of assistance, there is at least one other person who is mooching off of the system. I honestly don't know of a way to support the one and punish the other simultaneously - and without collateral damage (ie, the children of a druggie mom who stops getting public assistance b/c she can't pass a drug test).

We are reasonably well off, and I will be the first to admit that it was because of how we were raised and what we were given - and that not everyone has that opportunity. That being said - I keep my money and share my time. That way I know that what I am willing to share is being put to good use, instead of being wasted. I guess that is somewhat broad - I do donate SOME of my money - but I believe in showing the man how to fish, not just buying him one. And I believe in sharing my time close to home, and keeping my talents within the community. I believe that that is how I can best build a strong community.

THat being said, my chicken coop is relatively utilitarian - but the very fact that I HAVE chickens, and the land to keep them on, when I could live on a LOT less, in a subdivision, and donate the balance of my income to charity...well, that is another line that could be drawn. Everyone draws their own lines.

 

[luvchicks8]

My coop is very exspensive over $1000, so are peoples cars, campers, houses,boats or whatever make them happy. I also donate money to deserving charities. I earn it I decide how it is spent. I chose to spend it on a coop so be it.

 

[agnes_day]