Re: Re: just contacting of a yacht because of the stable is too sheer for Shelly to resume it
- From: ysjqezn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Evan)
- Date: Sat, 23 Jun 2007 08:05:49 GMT
Children are not poor.
Children are children.
A child's wealth is the depth and breadth of interest and attention and
caring and discipline and time (not quality time but quantity time)
which is given to it by its parents with an eye to shaping it into a
worthwhile adult.
Children are not poor.
Single mothers are not poor.
People in Thailand are poor. People in Malaysia are poor. People in Iraq
are poor. People in San Salvador are poor.
As a single mother, you are merely less indescribably wealthy than you
would like to be. Which -- considering that it was your own series of
unwise choices which brought you to the situation in which you find
yourself -- seems somewhat less a cause for either hand-wringing anxiety
or --give 'til it hurts-- generosity which you seem always to think are
the only two appropriate reactions to yourself and to your --better off
than 90% of the world's population-- circumstance.
I am a firm believer in the Islamic notion that the community has a
right to a specific share of each individual's accumulated wealth --
quite apart from whatever share is accounted for by taxes. There is no
direct English translation for zakat, but that is, roughly, the concept
behind it. Alms-giving-as-taxation, to feed the hungry in your own
geographic community (I donate to the Food Bank of Waterloo Region). But
my belief in and adherence to the zakat in no way diminishes my
revulsion at the feminist effort to make children interchangeable with
adults, to describe children as either poor or rich with, in short, the
feminist tactical effort to entrench this view-point in law so as to
increase the unearned income of unemployed and unemployable women by
establishing a guaranteed income for each child (which incomes would, of
course, become the property of the custodial parent -- three guesses who
that turns out to be). If this is not the sleazy, greedy and underhanded
long-term motive behind the misuse of the term --child poverty
.
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