Re: Food: When is it a right or a handout?

[Harry Veeder <eo200@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> From: rosserjb@xxxxxxx
> Date: Wed, 12 Jun 2002 14:31:54 -0500
> To: Barry Brooks <barrybrooks@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: pkt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: Food: When is it a right or a handout?
>
> Let me see, given the orientation of most on
> this list, is not the case of being involuntarily
> unemployed not a sixth case?  Do we not have people
> are none of 1-5 but who are unable to find someone
> willing to hire them to do anything?
> Barkley Rosser


That is another discussion. Involuntary unemployment
is not a choice by definition. I was considering when
unemployment is a preferred to employment.

Harry Veeder



> --On Tuesday, June 11, 2002 1:05 PM -0500 Barry Brooks
> <barrybrooks@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>>
>>> What I mean is...if an individual chooses not to work for money, while
>>> there is a shortage of food being produced by the nation, it is a sign
>>> the individual is either (1) mentally ill or (2) lazy.
>>>
>>> Harry Veeder
>>
>> One might add a very respectable case.
>> (3) rich
>>
>> I think 3 is just as respectable as 4.
>> (4) on the dole
>>
>> Or, what ever we may think of it 5 is common.
>> (5) a crook
>>
>> It is possible to be 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5 at the same time.
>>
>> What have I left out?
>>
>> Barry Brooks
>>
>