I did not know it was this bad, are you doing more to help?

I keep forgetting, David, that you are not only a lawyer but a "lawyer" in the worst sense of the word.
You are the kind of lawyer that inspires all the lame "lawyer jokes."

For you, everything is concerned with 'jurisdiction' and the letter of the law.

You ask how I acquired a responsibility toward my fellow humans.
By being born into the human race, pal, that's how.

I realize, of course, that you woulld know nothing about that.

For you, the question is alwas about a governmet's jurisdiction.

You seem to deny that the government has a responsibility towards those governed.

Else, what is it for?

We might just as well throw the whole thing over and achieve a state of anarchy.

The government governs by the consent of the governed in this country.

Since it needs the governeds' consent, it follows that it must be sensitive to that bod's needs.

You say that you celebrated the downfall of the USSR in 1991.

So did I.

So did most people who don't care for totalitarian oppression, I suspect. But you, David, are for me
a perfect representation of a Communist of the old regime.

There is no qualitative difference whatever between someone like you and a Josif Stalin who would allow several million Ukranians to literally starve to death because it furthered his wartime political agenda. Your entire attitude of the ends justifying the means echoes the Leninist line.

In short, OmSigDAVID, you are despicable.

You are doubly despicable because you seem to show a certain modicum of native intelligence and intellectual learning.
That makes you twice as bad as some of the other rabid wing-nuts on this site

You should know better. But you are soul-less.

What a Politbureau chief you would have made!
You would have achieved real power in the Comintern with your attitude and outlook.

Dave, if you really thought greed was good,

you wouldn't feel the need to tell us

all about your bountiful generosity, wallets stuffed with banknotes as Christmas presents,
buying clothes for impoverished children etc.

It seems that even you can't shut that nagging voice, that is your conscience, up.

The New York Times
December 6, 2011
Mother Shoots 2 at State Office, Then Kills Herself
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

SAN ANTONIO (AP) — A woman who for months was unable to qualify for food stamps pulled a gun in a state welfare office on Monday and staged a seven-hour standoff with the police that ended with her shooting her two children before killing herself, officials said.

The children, a 10-year-old son and a 12-year-old daughter, were in critical condition Tuesday. The mother was identified as Rachelle Grimmer, 38. A police investigator, Joe Baeza, said Ms. Grimmer had recently moved from Zanesville, Ohio.

Ms. Grimmer first applied for food stamps in July but was denied because she did not turn in enough information, said Stephanie Goodman, a spokeswoman for the Texas Department of Health and Human Services.

Ms. Goodman said it was not immediately clear what information was missing. She said the Grimmers’ last contact with the agency appeared to be a phone call in mid-November. When the family entered the Laredo office on Monday, shortly before 5 p.m., Ms. Grimmer asked to speak to a new caseworker, not the one whom she worked with previously, Ms. Goodman said.

Ms. Goodman said Ms. Grimmer was taken to a private room and she showed a gun and the standoff began.

Police negotiators tried to stay on the phone with Ms. Grimmer throughout the evening, but she kept hanging up, Mr. Baeza said. Around 7:45 p.m., she let a supervisor go unharmed. After hanging up the phone around 11:45 p.m., the police heard three shots. A SWAT team found Ms. Grimmer’s body and her two wounded children.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/07/us/woman-seeking-food-stamps-shoots-her-children.html?ref=us

It could also be just a Safeway policy - fear of being sued.