and Bob Geldof is giving it (anybody remember the Boomtown Rats?).
The playlist for the Woe is Us Festival
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Africa wants your money
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Lopan
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Just watched some of it and nearly hurled due to the level of hypocrisy. How can an artist dripping in gold and diamonds, wearing goods made in sweatshops tell me about the plight in Africa. I know they're fairly stupid but that really takes the piss, don't they know how the diamonds are dug out of the ground?
Winky
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greenfreak
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I've been watching on and off all day. Floyd with Roger Waters was fucking brilliant. I truly hate the ill-informed mc's of MTV and VH1. I doubt they know who half these people are.
catocom
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I'll have to agree with you there, in part.Gonz said:
They've made it so that it's more profitable not to try.
Personally I could get back into the mainstream work force if they would
change the current setup probably. The way it is though if I try, and just
can't do it, or get in between jobs, I'm screwed because the help will totally
stop without much hope of getting it back.
If they'd make a provision where I could make unlimited moneys for say 6 mos,
without repercussions of any kind, then say put it on hold unless/if/when I
had to have it again without an act of God, I'd be job hunting.
I'm not on welfare per se', but it's basically the same I think.
I'm really not sure how welfare works.
Sure you are.
Since I'm unfamiliar with your specifics, and what little I do know, you're not one of the cheats. However, even SSI retirement is welfare. I have a couple of in-laws who are exactly what the SSI disability program was written for, and can't get it. I know of several lazy fat fucks with no ambition, who do get it, thereby cheating the system. Parity?
No matter how you look at it, you have the ability to better yourself & your situation. Entrepeneurs don't have to do physical labor or tedious mundane work (though, those who do prosper)
Since I'm unfamiliar with your specifics, and what little I do know, you're not one of the cheats. However, even SSI retirement is welfare. I have a couple of in-laws who are exactly what the SSI disability program was written for, and can't get it. I know of several lazy fat fucks with no ambition, who do get it, thereby cheating the system. Parity?
No matter how you look at it, you have the ability to better yourself & your situation. Entrepeneurs don't have to do physical labor or tedious mundane work (though, those who do prosper)
catocom
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no I don't think I'm a cheat. At least according to the judge I'm not.
I don't have a slight opportunity to better my standings, but I do still
know people far worse that can't.
To me, welfare is something somebody got/gets for nothing.
I paid in for years to draw the current amount I was awarded.
The gov. screwed up big time when they switched over to the pay as you go system.
That's why I'm so much for the privatization thing. It won't benefit me, but
it will my nieces, and nephews, and we need to get away from this
communist bullshit.
Hell we have charities, and look at the live aide shit... The welfare system
needs to be turn completely over to that, and get socialism out of the tax system.
I don't have a slight opportunity to better my standings, but I do still
know people far worse that can't.
To me, welfare is something somebody got/gets for nothing.
I paid in for years to draw the current amount I was awarded.
The gov. screwed up big time when they switched over to the pay as you go system.
That's why I'm so much for the privatization thing. It won't benefit me, but
it will my nieces, and nephews, and we need to get away from this
communist bullshit.
Hell we have charities, and look at the live aide shit... The welfare system
needs to be turn completely over to that, and get socialism out of the tax system.
Winky
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unclehobart
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Africa got along dandy with loincloths and pointy sticks for 100,000 years just fine. They scrappled along with farming and hunting like the rest of us and have formed some mighty fine village culture rich in traditions of art and religion. They live in the way that the Greenpeace crowd would have us all hacked down too. Why is it that they are suddenly in dire poverty and in need of 'saving' just because the rest of the world is overrun with McDonalds and Selvester Stallone DVDs and Africa is not? They don't need rock and roll pity coinage... what they need is farkin political stability. We can send over all of the grain barges in the world and it will not matter one iota so long as private geurilla armies armed with rusting AK-47s and castoff 50's military equipment keep seizing the stuff right off the dock.
