Comments on: Charity Can Be Crippling

By: Tony

Tony — Sat, 03 Apr 2010 04:54:40 +0000

Wot’s the old story??

If you give a man a fish, you feed him for a day.

If you teach a man to fish, you feed him for a lifetime.

If you give a man a fish every day, why should he learn how to fish?

rebel without a job,
tony

By: Happy Gulliver

Happy Gulliver — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 03:40:48 +0000

I tend to air on the side of charity, but I have recently begun to start looking at situations to the effect the greater good. The age old adage: what is better giving a man a fish or teaching him to fish. To reference a story from your repertoire…. Maybe it would be better to offer him an opportunity to pick nuts up off the ground and a place to stay only to fire him when he refuses to do any work at all.

Many times the most charitable thing you can do for people is tell them “No!” Hunger can be a great motivator, if we let it do its job.

By: Linda Brady Traynham

Linda Brady Traynham — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 19:43:05 +0000

Or explode.

By: Kevin

Kevin — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 21:44:25 +0000

Pump enough charity into a place and it will stay backwards forever.

By: Sue-Z-Q

Sue-Z-Q — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 18:06:47 +0000

A few of us pointed out the same thing, mentioned recorded history, pointed out throwing money is never the answer, especially when it is via Misery BailOuts, not freely given via charitable sheoples, but from govt coffers routed from taxpayers. It almost split up the forum that we discussed this on, ordinarily close-hearted agreeable people.

BTW, Linda, my husband ADORES you (so do I!!!) and we’ve been “into this” for forty (count ‘em, folks, FORTY) years and read off the same page. I wrote in professional publishing for 35 years now spend time waking people up and sharing homesteader stuff. I can butter, good for 5 year shelf life, and we like your ideas about purchasing mobile dwellings.

A lot of what I know I won’t write about in comments, but now you have my email, so if you ever wanna use it, be my guest. Wish we could sit around MY big antique round oak table, smokin’ cigarettes and jaw-bonin’, darling!

By: ludwig

ludwig — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 16:17:19 +0000

Begging your pardon – I’d like to post to “Climate Control Is An Economic Issue” but there is no text box to input with. I’m guessing commenting is only available for a limited period of time. If you can’t move this over there, feel free to delete.

There is a nice article on DDT and the political machinations that banned it over a lack of evidence of being harmful over at junkscience.com – http://junkscience.com/ddtfaq.html

Lead in gasoline leads to lead in the air that is easily brought into the blood stream. There is an interesting line of evidence that blood lead levels correlate with crime rates twenty years later – http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/07/07/AR2007070701073.html and http://freakonomics.blogs.nytimes.com/tag/rick-nevin/ cover the major points.