Posted on 10/17/2014 1:06:50 PM PDT by chajin
In this powerful video as found on InspireMore, 24-year-old Veronika Scott is already CEO of her own non-profit company called The Empowerment Plan in Detroit.
As a daughter of addicts, Scott worked hard to earn a scholarship so that she could attend college.
There, Scott was given the assignment of creating something that “fills actual needs.”...
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Great story. We need more like her.
That WOULD be a great story if her company actually produced a product that people would buy from which she would make a profit. However, if she is using taxpayer grant money to pay the homeless to work making coats/sleeping bags that are given away, NOT SO GOOD. Just another liberal feel good program paid for by working people.
It has to be taxpayer funded, otherwise she would not be able to hire only the homeless — in private business that would be discrimination. Great story though, that she fought her way through having addicts as parents.
Dr. Olasky’s book should be required reading in all high schools. I read it some years ago and was blown away by the common sense that used to be in this country. Work is it’s own reward is a cliche but like all cliches it is true. Giving able bodied people things without their earning it is not compassion.
I think it’s a step in the right direction. In Olasky’s book he documented homeless shelters where people were employed, whether it be chopping firewood or sewing dresses, in ways that supported the shelter’s work, and also gave the people the sense of employment, so that they could then find gainful employment elsewhere. The only difference that I see is that the Olaskyite shelters were funded by private charity, and if Veronika’s “business” were to free itself from government funding, then it would be what the homeless-looking-for-a-hand-up need.
That’s a great book. Was pleased to meet Dr. Olasky once; great man.
If only she could market her product to corporations that want to be high profile charity givers and hander uppers, she might really have something there. It’s got to be taken off the government teet.
An important component of Olasky’s thesis is the negative impact government charity has on the natural compassion of people and institutions in private life. He demonstrates that the very nature of government subsidies creates an entitlement culture in which those in need consider themselves members of an oppressed class. Rather than receiving a hand up they receive a slave’s wages for which they must maintain their eligibility.
Olasky demonstrates there is no compassion in government welfare. It is a perversion of social justice that reinforces the persistence of a permanent underclass.
“yelling at me, full on screaming. Said said, “We don’t need coats, we need jobs.”
How many really want jobs?
“We don’t need coats, we need jobs.” “
There was a homeless woman who wanted to succeed. I sure hope she does.
How many really want jobs?“A woman came out the shelter that I was just in and she was yelling at me, full on screaming. Said said, “We don’t need coats, we need jobs.”
You have a point, of course - but certainly that woman did.
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