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[pslamont]

No anecdote. That conversation happened about two weeks ago here on the Big Island. The twenty-somethings are a product in Hawaii of what I saw in California for many years. Once a family stays on welfare or entitlement for a couple generations, the culture of poverty is established. Many in this position give up on hard work because it is easier to stay on a program than to get off the program. Go from welfare to a job and what happens? You lose your medical benefits, often start at a wage below your welfare benefits, have few or no skills, etc... In fact one of the major problems being faced today is high school girls becoming pregnant by choice to qualify for that welfare check. I am not claiming all teens do this, or that all 20 somethings make those decisions but unfortunately these situations are all too prevalent in our nation today.

This is a generation here in Hawaii and back in California that believe in entitlement. The world owes them a living... and a comfortable one at that.

Believe it or not I am actually quite liberal. I see Welfare as it exists today an opressive arm of the have's to keep the have nots dependent and easy to manipulate. it is sad.

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!"