Thursday, April 8, 2010

A Lesson Concerning Cats, Mice, and Cream

Just got this in an email from my engineering professional society's local office - They want us to come out and  "give back" [barf]

SA ASCE Members,

Registration for Habitat for Humanity on April 24th is now posted to the website. If you can, please participate in this worthwhile effort to help build simple, decent, affordable housing in partnership with people in need.

Kimberly Corbett
To which I promptly replied
Kimberly,

How does feeding a cat cream, help him desire to learn to catch mice?  Just a thought from a curmudgeon that does not have to toe the line anymore.

Does anybody think that she, or any at the ASCE (American Society of Civil Engineers), will get it that this sort of "giving back" does nothing more than help perpetuate the very thing they, in their misguided way, are  trying to "help"?

Poor people get enough help from others- that is why they remain poor. It ain't rocket science.

1 comment:

RKL said...

I've never liked that idea either. If you teach a man to fish...

It makes the people who participate feel good about themselves that's all.

RKL