The motorcity madman Ted Nugent is a regular column writer for the Waco Tribune, and this weeks column for the paper is titled 'How Not To Help The Poor: Focus On Families Who Want Hand Up, Not Hand Out'.

An excerpt from the column is included below.

The terrible economy has taken its toll on a number of hard-working Americans and their families. It is incumbent upon each of us to do what we can to assist our fellow citizens in getting back in the American Dream free-market race.

My recommendation is that each of us identify a family down on its luck and do whatever we can to pull that family out of the economic ditch into which it's temporarily slid.

With the holiday season upon us, Americans will be deluged with requests from any number of charities and agencies to help the poor. Mind you, I fully subscribe to Christ's admonition to help the poor, and like everybody I know, we will give and give and give. It is simply the American Way.

What I do not subscribe to is helping those who refuse to help themselves and who constantly look for a hand-out instead of a hand up.

America has a chronic class of self-inflicted poor people — poor because of poor life choices.

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