Wonder if Jon still lives at home with Mom… at age 50?

It hasn’t worked for decades and have actually gotten worse. Maybe voting for elected representatives is the problem?

My wife and I both did it while being in the public sector. We invested in those companies that received all that corporate welfare just like most of us do. Try it. Then you can join “The Rich” and toss greenbacks around to the downtrodden.

No, I have no idea what you’ve given back to the community. But given that you yourself claimed to have more money than 90% of them, I’d say they gave you more money than you gave them. There’s a judgment call for you.

Giving should be and have been done by me locally and not by writing a check. I also realize that a certain segment of the “basic humanity” you ramble on about have “earned” this perceived “right” by contributing what to our society?

Storming the castle? You have been reading too much apocalyptic science fiction. So we are suppose to bribe them? I thought that was already done with Section 8, food stamps, Medicare, clothing allowances and on and on. I don’t mind helping but I do mind being taken as a cash cow sucker.

Your comfortable and pleasant retirement is sorta predicated on the minor detail that the mob won’t storm your castle. The police might be on your side until they realize they too are not part of your caste, and then things might get warm for you, your children, &c.

So pass out some of your wealth The happier you keep them, the less likely they are to riot.

Thank you for letting me let off a little cynicism.

Finally, basic humanity. If you have the means to provide for people to have a place to live, food to eat, and enough support to have a little human dignity and you deny it to them, you are not worthy of being called a human being.

J.