02-28-2011, 06:33 AM
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Originally posted by pslamont
As we saw for our entire lives in Califorina... Welfare Entitlement bas the backbone of massive poverty. It was just too easy to go on the government dole and skip learnint/working. I had a twenty something comment to me the other day "It's awful. They took away our food stamps. How are we going to live?'. Of course he drives a nice little pick-up truck with a custom flat bed back, wife has a lexus, they have two cell phones with internet and just installed cable in their place. Methinks there is a bit of confusion regarding the difference between want and need.
I want to be the kind of woman that, when my feet
hit the floor each morning, the devil says
"Oh Crap, She's up!"
What you offered was not truth, but an anecdote. While it is true that some people who get welfare either cheat on reporting income or live beyond their means, they are statistical outliers. The turth is that most people getting govenment assistance live in pretty dire circumstances.
Have you ever met someone on welfare that had none of those things? Why don't you go seek them out? And why do you not report that family to the welfare department? I suspect you do not because they do not exist.
And the devil is more likely annoyed by you than scared of you.