[MD] Down the road of mediocrity

[pholden at davtv.com]

Quoting Arlo Bensinger <ajb102 at psu.edu>:

> [Platt]
> Why do you suppose the poor in Zambia and Indonesia are left to 
> suffer in the streets?
> 
> [Arlo]
> They lack the social resources to take care of them. Again, _we_ have 
> those resources. Should we leave our poor in the streets as in Zambia?

What pray tell are "social resources?"

> [Platt]
> Would you like to see a bunch of bums and freeloaders in your community?
> 
> [Arlo]
> There are plenty of people in this area, specifically north towards 
> Renova and southwest towards Altoona, that have been financially 
> devastated in recent decades. In my travels I talk with them a lot. 
> They are good people hit by economic forces of both financial and 
> employment drain, hardly "bums and freeloaders".

Right. Because most of them didn't sit on their butts feeling sorry for
themselves. And probably have too much pride to depend on handouts. Incidentally,
do you ever go up to the Horseshoe Curve and watch the trains go by?





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