rich vs poor

Why is it "morally" ok to let lazy un-employed people lose their homes or their jobs or their health care, people who are too lazy to work and make their mortgage payments and are losing their homes that were really too fancy and too expensive for them to buy in the fist place

Why are we so horrified or annoyed by giving free money (ie. Welfare, un-employment payments, food-stamps, mortgage bailouts) to lazy un-employed people, people who we believe have only lost their homes because they're too lazy to work and make their payments or were greedy and tried to buy a house that was too fancy for them. Why are we so opposed to giving them anything, and why do we believe that they're only getting what they deserve.

But yet we believe its ok to give bailouts (ie. Free money) to corporate executive and big financial institutions?

The same people and institutions who got us into this mess? I guess they aren't lazy, they certainly work hard at stealing from the rest of us.

On one hand we are repelled by and refuse to help people we deem lazy and greedy, but then we turn around and are ok with giving help to other lazy greedy people.

Some would argue that its because the big fancy executives will spread that money out and we'll all get a little bit of it, even though all evidence is to the contrary, and everything indicates that those greedy fancy executives will either hoard their money, or gamble it on fancy new "investment mechanisms dealing with unique financial instruments" (note that can be translated as either "cheating" or "rigging the game"), which you would think if they're cheating or rigging the game they'd be making lots of money and could keep out of trouble, but the truth of it is that they're not really very good at what they do, so they've had to resort to cheating to get ahead, but they're not even really very good at that, (note: how well things went in 2007 and 2008). They gamble, cheat, take wild risks, lose other peoples money while skimming off a profit for them selves, constantly shuttling the losses off onto someone else and the blame off on to someone else.

How could anyone who professes to be even the least be fiscally conservative continue to support a system like that?
How could any morally concious person think that is right?
Especially the right wing fundamentalist fanatical hard-working bible-quoting christians?
Where in the bible does it say: "Thou shalt help the rich, and thou shall not help the poor"?? I seem to have missed that passage. And the passage about the camel and the eye of a needle, is that one about a poor man not getting into heaven?

If this was some soap opera on tv, or a reality show, or even if some advertising campaign in magazines or newspapers I could understand it because rich people have money to control the message and spin things to make themselves look good.
But its not, many so-called normal middle class american believe this is ok. Even many lower class americans, the very ones who are being crushed under the boot heel of the rich are spewing out garbage about ending entitlements, and cutting welfare, food stamps, medicare, medicaid, npr.

Jan 13, 2011 Blame

Why are rush limbaugh and sarah palin being targeted for blame for the arizona tragedy?
Of course they can't be blamed for this tragedy, even the angry vicious rhetoric they spew can't be blamed for this tragedy.
We can't blame them for the actions of one mentally ill individual.
We may blame them for being stupid, or callous, or insensitive, or selfish, or inconsiderate, or insincere, or foolish, or dishonest; but they or their words or actions should not be blamed for these tragic events.

Our entire political and cultural system has failed us.
It failed 20 people in Tuscon, it failed the shooter, it failed his family; but it also failed us all. Our system is to be blamed. Our political system that has become a giant media circus driven only by money and power, a political system that is totally focused on defeating its adversaries, and enriching its masters, and could care less about the lives of the American people, much less the lives of 21 people in Tucson Arizona.
Our financial system that has become so focused on maximizing corporate profit and executive salaries, that it has lurched our ecomonic system to the brink of disaster, and it has sacrificed our state and local services to protect the profits of the financial giants. Our news media which has become nothing but an entertainment network, and no longer reports news or facts but just spins everything to create "stories" where none exist but to fan the flames of public opinion, and excite and agitate their audience to increase ratings and profits; or news media doesn't care about truth, or honesty, or facts, they only care about profit.
Many if not all of our religious systems have failed us, they have become so driven with legalistic arguments about who's right and who's wrong, who's good and who's evil, whats allowed and whats not; and like our political system they have become focused on attacking anyone who opposes them or even thinks differently; and in the process they have moved away from the teachings of their faiths.
Our systems have failed us so badly, that we have become obsessed with freedom from government, small government, less government, lower taxes; to the point that many basic human services are becoming non-existent or non-functional; failed us so badly that our health care system is obsessed and driven by corporate profits rather than making people healthier, or curing the sick.
It wasn't Sarah Palin or Rush Limbaugh who drove Laughner to do what he did, but it is all of our systems and all of those who drive and control and influence our systems, and all of us who are part of our systems who are to be blamed for the tragedy last Saturday.
But most critically is was a failure of our health care system, failures to detect Laughner's problems, failures to provide his schools or family resources to detect and address his problems, but most of all a failure by each and everyone of us to remove the stigma that is still attached to mental illness.