If someone works hard but cannot afford nessecary services does that mean they do not deserve it at all?

Question

If there is a hard working person and they need an essential product or service but they cannot afford it does that mean they should not get it at all and suffer the consequences of not having that good or product?

Raz Griz...college is expensive and many people can not afford it

Answer 1

No it doesn't mean they don't deserve it. If they work hard, they should have their basic needs met, such as education and medical care. All humans are deserving of these essentials.

Answer 2

If you're talking basic essentials I can live with helping out the poor and hungry because we're not talking about a very large percentage of people who fall into that category.

But college? Sorry, but higher education has become a very over-rated industry that has taken advantage of our culture's obsession with higher wages being associated with it.

College is NOT a necessary service. A good electrician, plumber or carpenter can make $80-100K in a year and doesn't need college to support a family or be happy.

Answer 3

It means the slogan work hard and you will get ahead in life...is just a slogan. It means America is not the great country we envision in our minds. We act like we are the moral superiors to the rest of the world, when in reality our crap stinks. Some in our great society think for some reason people in 2007 should still be living like it was 1890 if they were truly poor. No electricity, no car, no television, no decent clothes or shoes, not enough money to pay the ever growing cost of everything. We see nothing wrong with paying a CEO or ballplayer twenty five million a year while schoolteachers, firefighters, police all the people who make our society civil, we pay the bare minimum we can get away with and call it capitalism. Unless you are lucky enough to be in the top twenty percent of the wealth of this country, most of us are being paid the minimum an employer thinks they can get away with paying, not the true value of your work in comparison to what some people make for theirs. No amount of schooling or letters after your name entitles a person to devalue another. There is no reason all working people don't have the bare essentials for 2007. Food, a car, a place to live and value for your work no matter your job. We have lost our values again, like we have a habit of doing in this country toward one another. If we are the greatest, wealthiest country on earth, why don't we share it with each other as a nation? There are lots of homeless Americans in America.

Answer 4

No, it simply means they can't afford it

Hopefully someone will take pity on them and help them. Friends and family members are great for helping out in these situations. Private charities are also a wonderful resource.

But if you think the government should provide them with something, you are dead wrong.

Answer 5

If someone "works hard", then they should have enough to offer a potential employer so that they can afford or are provided with the "necessary service". Otherwise, they should seek another employer.

That being said, I would rather have my tax dollars go the person who is out there working hard and provide them with a little help than to give this money to someone who is doing nothing.

Answer 6

Of course if one is a con. the answer would be no they don't deserve it. Even if one has saved their entire life and own a home and then lose most, if not all of it, due to cancer or other catastrophic illeness or event.

Democrats care about people and so my answer is yes, they do deserve vital services just for being human if for no other reason.

Answer 7

We, as a people, have lost the respect for hard work. We have instead put more respect on the amount you earn. Those that earn more have a tendency to look down on those that do not earn as much, even thought they do honest, hard work. With looking down comes the attitude of "every man for himself" or "I got mine,you get yours". Being united as a people doesn't mean much anymore. It has evolved into" As long as I get what I want it doesn't matter how I get it". With that attitude comes the reluctance to provide any help to anybody. This is a dangerous position to put ourselves in, as a nation. United we stand, divided we fall !!

Answer 8

True. However, the government has gotten involved in "necessary services" and made them more expensive for everyone. If the government would mind it's own business and let the market determine prices, there would be options everyone could afford. Just like cars, people with less money would buy cheaper healthcare and protection services. But the government can't leave it alone and has eliminated competition, which we all pay for in higher taxes.

Answer 9

I would venture to guess that these "hard-working" people that can't afford necessary services you refer to have cable television, maybe on a 42inch TV or larger, 1 or 2 cars, eat out more than in, smoke, drink alcohol, have cell phones, a computer with DSL, an extensive wardrobe, buy their coffee at Starbucks often.

You can buy basic HMO coverage from Kaiser, or Blue Cross for about $250/mo for a family. I pay $750 for my family to have better coverage but we don't necessarily need it.

Answer 10

Deserve's got nothin' to do with it. Try to think of what you deserve or for that matter what anybody deserves. If you tally the results honestly you should come to the conclusion that it's a good thing we all don't get what we really deserve.

Answer 11

I think we need to do far more for our working poor in this country. I am completely opposed to handing out money to people who don't contribute, but if you're busting your butt and just can't make ends meet - you deserve some help.

And I'm an "evil" conservative.