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@kellyjay said
I wonder what party is in control of the city?
See reply to Suzi, above. Two Texas billionaires.

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@shavixmir said
Surely giving to charity is just taking away insentive for people to get off their lazy arses to do things for themselves?
You channelling AvJoe now, shav? 😆

Don't call him "Shirley."



PS "incentive". Courtesy of the Spelling Gestapo. Yes, I know you know how to spell it, but maybe AvJoe wouldn't have.

😆 😆

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@rajk999 said
Satanic. Some Christian sects discourage charity, referring to it as 'works salvation'. So in some cases it is Christian to be uncharitable.
If people think they're buying salvation by giving food to the homeless, they're mistaken. But that's still no reason to criminalize it. I doubt the homeless refuse free food, either way.

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@shavixmir said
Surely giving to charity is just taking away insentive for people to get off their lazy arses to do things for themselves?
I am surprised that you get the concept of taking away incentive by giving people fish instead of teaching them to fish. This is an age old adage that has been properly applied in many circumstances for the betterment of people.
Maybe you are coming around....congratulations

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@averagejoe1 said
I am surprised that you get the concept of taking away incentive by giving people fish instead of teaching them to fish. This is an age old adage that has been properly applied in many circumstances for the betterment of people.
Maybe you are coming around....congratulations
Oh, good God.

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@moonbus said
Dunn and Wilks.

https://edition.cnn.com/2022/07/24/politics/texas-far-right-politics-invs/index.html
That article is informative, yet horrifying.

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@suzianne said
Oh, good God.
Hit a nerve, did I? I am not sure about your politics, are you a dependent on government (thus give away fish) or you more of a self-reliant sort, and encourage people to take care of themselves?
Another tough question,, but I did not start this thread which could lead to a lot of traps for liberals!!!!

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@suzianne said
Not fully functioning humans.
You think that there are people who are incapable such acts in one degree or another?

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@suzianne said
One guess. It's Texas.
City governments don’t automatically reflect their state, who is in charge of Houston’s government?

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@KellyJay
I thought you were a Christian, didn't Jesus say to help the poor? People saying they were lazy and such is just avoiding the real problems going on, like do you think they are homeless because they are lazy?

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@kellyjay said
City governments don’t automatically reflect their state, who is in charge of Houston’s government?
https://newrepublic.com/article/173786/houstons-mayoral-race-exposing-lefts-fault-lines

Whitmire, a well-known conservative Democrat


A conservative mayor runs Houston. Of course.

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@suzianne said
That article is informative, yet horrifying.
"You be surprised,
all the things you can buy with small change.
Money talks..."


J.J. Cale

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Has a thread on money ever been done yet?

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@sonhouse said
@KellyJay
I thought you were a Christian, didn't Jesus say to help the poor? People saying they were lazy and such is just avoiding the real problems going on, like do you think they are homeless because they are lazy?
I am all for helping the poor but my question has more to do with the government of the city Houston. Whose laws were being broken, who wrote them, who is responsible for them?

Nothing I have said had anything to do with the merits for or against, if a politician is to be blamed which one?

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@vivify said
https://newrepublic.com/article/173786/houstons-mayoral-race-exposing-lefts-fault-lines

Whitmire, a well-known conservative Democrat


A conservative mayor runs Houston. Of course.
So a Democrat I see.

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