I’ve resisted talking about HCR 36 since Rep. Yvonne Davis (D) filed it on Monday because, you know, I’m a sensitive guy and all. And I thought that there was no way it would be approved. With the lovefest going on between the parties in Austin, however, who knows?
I’ll skip the intro and jump straight to the rights, although fans of LBJ will want to read the intro:
(1) all people, and especially the poor, have the right to pursue life,
Why do poor people “especially” have the right to pursue life? Does that mean people that have brought themselves out of poverty have less of a right to pursue life?
(5) the poor have the right to full employment and a guaranteed income that enables them to rise above the poverty level
Setting aside for the moment that the US is arguably at full employment, why is it that only the poor have this right? Or the right to a guaranteed income? What about the rest of the country?
(7) the poor must be protected from environmental racism that disproportionately targets impoverished communities with toxic waste sites and other elements that adversely affect the atmosphere and health of persons in those communities
There is so much poppycock in that sentence that it I don’t even need to elaborate.
Aren’t you glad the legislature is hard at work doing the people’s business?
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So I worked my butt off paying for my own schooling, getting a job, saving money, and all I had to do was be poor and I would be gauranteed a job, healthcare, and justice. Also, do poor white people get affected by environmental racism, or is it just minorities?
1) ’bout time a Democrat got on board with the right to life.
7) Damn straight. It’s time the River Oaks crowd was redeployed to Galena Park, La Porte and Stinkadena…. and the poor got to live on Kirby. signed, Gregg
I’m confused by the term “pursue life”. It seems to me I “pursue life” when I eat and drink every day. If I didn’t eat and drink, the inevitable result would be death, right? I’m able to eat and drink daily because I choose to work. So if I choose not to work, am I not trying to “pursue death”? OK, enough semantics. On to the part that really bothers me.
Brilliant thinking comrade (if we didn’t live in a country that thrived on capitalism). But seriously, WTF?!?! We’re now supposed to guarantee the existence of every shmuck that can’t cut the mustard?
Capitalism was never supposed to be about guarantees. It was supposed to be about opportunity. What we do with the opportunity is up to us.
Sickening. Why work anymore? I’m just going to flop around on the ground and wait for all you people who are still working to take care of all my needs. I needs an apartment, cable tv, beer in the fridge… And of course, I needs you to pay for the fridge, the rent, the utilities…..
Okay, I’m flopping around now… Come take care of me…
senor boosh, perry, cronyn, darth, gutlesshutch will fall in lock step.
“Full Employment” does that mean a full time 40 hour a week job or what. Does “full employment” also mean they will work a full 40 Hrs. What happens to them if they get lazy and get fired is it still guranteed. Why should they do anything if everything is guranteed to them.
“Guranteed Income” means they must have done something for it. What is it Ms. Davis proposes they do for this “guranteed income”? Because if they do nothing then it’s just a “handout” and not income (aka wages).
Typical Dimwit idea to pander for votes.
I thought the US Constitution was for the poor…and the middle income…and the wealthy. I see no discrimination (other than the changes for slavery). Why do these people feel that all of these words make one whit of difference in the lives of those whom, by some arbitrary designation, are “poor”. Yes, it’s hard to climb up. Yes, it’s hard to overcome poor cultural values or family history. But there is no guarantee that the rich stay rich (look at a slew of lottery winners and pro athletes), just as there are no chains - save the emotional - that keep the poor down.
I came from a large family. We were not wealthy. My daddy worked two and three jobs to feed us. My first non-hand-me-down store-bought shirt came on my 15th birthday - and from the dollar clearance rack. We raised much of our own food because we had to (I remember being “called to hoe” during those hot summers!) My momma sewed a lot of our clothes and what she didn’t sew came out of Sears Catalogs. But I was expected to do well in school, and because I applied myself thoroughly, I was offered a full-ride scholarship in my senior year. If I had not earned that scholarship, I would have worked and/or applied for other financial aid. There were times I wanted to quit college, but with the aid of my husband (also attending on student loans-fully repaid-and alternating semesters off for work in the construction industry) I stuck it out and made it through.
God helps those who help themselves.
#9
AMEN
Rep Davis’ bill should have never seen the light of day. It’s about vote pandering, wanting to feel good about yourself by trying too “help” the “poor” folks at the folks who work for a living’s expense. Socialism… pure and simple.
/my appologies to simple
/flopping with thunderhawk
Sorry, that’s resolution…not bill.
/still flopping
I resolve that folks should heed the “no work, no eat” rule that Emperor Bacchus hereby imposes.
Gee, was that Yvonne Davis or Angela Davis?
With all those “rights”, where is the word obligation? Those little things like show up to work on time, be sober, do your work correctly and on time - and do it better than anybody else does so you can get promoted, unless you’re happy to be stuck where you’re at. Dress neat, be courteous and polite to everybody. Don’t back talk your boss, even if she or he is a jerk. If you don’t like working for them, find another job, then quit - unless you have enough money NOT to go on welfare of any kind.
Make your company better than it was, even if you’re not the owner, and sell your company to other people.
Don’t steal or falsify your time card. Don’t get arrested over the weekend so you can show up for work on Monday morning. Take courses to improve your education and job knowledge and performance. If you’re a youngster, stay in HS or college, and work hard to make good grades. And if you’re a parent, stay on your kids like stink on doo doo to ensure they do. DO NOT TOLERATE EXCUSES FOR ACADEMIC FAILURE. THERE AREN’T ANY, unless you are in a coma or damn near dead.
THAT Rep Davis, is how you pursue life and happiness and escape poverty. If you can’t handle that, go suck your thumb until you either starve to death or figure it out.
Did I just step into the twilight zone? huh?
Sounds like the resolution was written by a Katrina refugee.
#14 Big : EXTREMELY well stated! Too bad the right people can’t or don’t want to hear/heed that.
Pretty basic stuff according to the way I was raised. You too, I presume from your words.
/ST: You’ve been here all along!
/tedtam; Me too: I cut grass, washed and waxed cars, washed windows, drove a snowcone truck 7 days a week from before down until after dark, worked in a “sweat shop” wood furniture manufacturing place cutting the same pattern of wood for weeks on end, sprayed ditches for mosquitoes, ran a misquito fogging machine for the city, painted signs and billboards and bagged groceries and shagged shopping carts to survive and make to it through college. I didn’t need no steenkin’ handouts cause we were poor. We worked for what we had. It was a good lesson. My life has been richer because of it. Makes you appreciate what you have because you EARNED it!
I propose a new policy for those on welfare who are able to work but don’t: No workie/no eatie!
Okay malcolm and Thunderhawk, if you promise to quit flopping around I have a job for you as second and third base. I’ll go get a couple of blankets. Be right back.
Can anyone else out there define ‘environmental racism’ for me? I’m no wordsmith, but to quote the Princess Bride - “I do not think it means what you think it means”.
Does that mean that yellow grass is unfairly trampled upon because it is not green? Or maybe people are more interested in breathing air from a blue sky than a gray one? Or does that mean that tree huggers don’t allow minorities?
How do these people get (re)elected?
Here’s a story to ruffle your feathers.
My girlfriend is a great mom and she seems to not be able to concieve again. Her 22 year old sister-in-law seems to be very fertile. She already has 4 kids ranging from 3mo-5yrs old. She got all of her kids taken away by CPS because she is a crackhead. My girlfriend has the 3 month old and a 4 year old, plus her 2 year old. The grandma has the rest. She still gets food stamps for all the kids, AFDC, HUD housing, and WIC. She DOESN’T have her kids and my girlfriend is eating hamburger, while the crackhead is eating steak and shrimp. Here’s the kicker…crackhead thinks she is pregnant again. /taking a deep breath now
This bill is a political statement.
This bill is playing a race card guilt trip
A Decendant from Irish, this fat redneck lives in east Texas
I have no guilt on this matter, or anything else
As for the bill, IMHO, it was a waste of paper
Don’t we have the unalienable right to roll up the nearest newpaper and pop Yvonne Davis on the nose with it? It seems to work for puppies.
@2 duhmoose
Good points of course, except you overlook the glaringly obvious: white people ARE the minority, here and in many places throughout the country. I may have missed it, but don’t think I’ve heard the race Nazi’s screaming about caucasian Americans rights and righting injustices inflicted on them.
Examples of which abound! All this crap is extremist propaganda bleated out incessantly by the Marxist media. No different than the Jews being singled out in Nazi Germany because they as a group had worked hard and prospered.
And that is the mindset of these socialist pigs that trowel out they’re contemporary version of racism. ‘Everything is messed up cuz whitey made it that way’.
In this country of opportunity, poor is not a racial thing, as they would have us believe. It is merely ruse to impose their agenda. They are merely COMMUNISTS/FACISTS pure and simple, and are using control of the media to destroy our way of life.
Insane…simply insane. I now fully understand why our forefathers FLED Europe. When will we start colonizing Mars. I’ll be first in line.
#18 Shannon - You have a job for me? Well, first of all, I need to know if I can have this Monday off, because I’ve got a doctors appointment… And I always have to leave early on Thursdays, because that’s when I have to pick up my friend for his weekly meetings with his parole officer…
Also, how much do it pay? I get $449 a week from the government, so it has to pay at least three times that much to make it worth my while, if you know what I’m saying…
And, if I take the job, can I have an advance on my first weeks pay?
Politcal speeches make for really stupid legislation
I like how two people can get married borrow money to go to college - become teachers in a low income housing project - work a second job on the weekend
But if you look at their combined income
They’re rich