i'd rather sell untaxed cigarettes...
Posted on 08/25/2013 7:49:35 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Yeah...I noticed that....
At one big dealer they told me they sold 2,500 RV'S last year....and this time they already sold 2,700 by end of August,,,
So I asked him how this is possible in today's weak economy...
and the reply was...."the rich always have money"
Could be more people seeing the coming collapse and are bugging out.
(Spokeshave who is past his shelf life but delivers an occasional RV)
Now? You betcha. I would do whatever I could to do my part to "bring it all down, man."
Obama's reign has proven one thing to me, though: Playing by the rules is for suckers.
These days, yes, if I could make the same or more money by sitting on my ass, I'd do it.
Especially if one could double- or triple-dip benefits.
In 33 states and the District of Columbia, welfare pays more than an $8-an-hour job. In 12 states and DC, the welfare package is more generous than a $15-an-hour job.
And there's the problem.
i'd rather sell untaxed cigarettes...
Government sure does make it easy for some to sit at home & collect welfare. It gives no incentive to better yourself. There are some cases where the person truly needs it and is not “working” the system/taking advantage of it, but those cases are few and far between.
Welfare is continuous, as is disability. Drive through the hood sometime, lots of them are perfectly able to work but are on disability. The abuse is rampant.
I know the article didn’t mention unemployment, but I think that’s harder to abuse since it does have limits. In Wisconsin you can only apply for so many extensions before it’s completely done. I’ve been on unemployment (circumstances beyond my control, please don’t judge) for 10 months. It will completely run out end of this December. Thank goodness I finally found a job where I’ll actually make more than unemployment. Roughly $900 more a month, plus benefits. Even though my new job is about a 35-40 minute drive, factoring in gas and after school care for my daughter, I’m still ahead $550 a month. Its not exactly where I wanted to be, but its a job and I want to work. I guess that’s the difference between me and the users that abuse the system. I do want to work, I do want to better myself. Unless I win the mega lottery of course... :)
....dont tempt me.....
LOL!
Interesting that the picture is of a middle-aged, slightly overweight white man.
I worked with juvenile offenders in the early ‘80’s. One kid’s most profitable burglary netted him $5,000. They thought it was incredibly stupid for people to work all year at McDonald’s when one day’s “enterprise” would yield such a profit. The only embarrassment was being caught and incarcerated. Even that is now considered a rite of passage in some circles.
“If You Could Make More Money By Going On Welfare Instead Of Working, Would You Do It?”
No. I’d become a professional panhandler. I hear they make excellent cash wages, all tax-free.
In my area I’d say MOST of them work under the table. Gubberment programs cover all the overhead very well and work under the table for cash pays for the extras. There is a huge underground economy of untaxed money and goods and it isn’t with people who are getting a 1099 or a W-2.
You could do both and really live high on the hog.
My next door neighbors have lived in their home for four years now without paying any mortgage payments or property taxes. The husband managed to get himself “layed off” because rehabs failed to help his alcoholism. He managed to drink himself into total “depression” with the two years of unemployment he received. Meanwhile, the wife’s son,( just out of prison for burglary and addiction to pills, his four children,(including his thirteen year old daughter who has a baby of her own despite medicaid sponsored birth control from age eleven) and wife moved in with them, bringing to seven the total of persons that are being provided free food, medical care, clothing and transportation to doctors appointments plus numerous other services. Bankruptcy was declared to allow them to walk away from all the debts that they owed and to delay indefinitely the bank’s ability to recover a house that hasn’t been paid on for years. They are now assured that the husband, now fourty-nine years old, is close to winning lifetime disability payments because he’s “depressed” because of his drinking problem.
How do I know all this? Because it is a source of great pride for the wife to relate how all of this is orchestrated, managed and procured. I have reached the limit of how much of this I can politely listen to and have begun to avoid her at all costs. Although I have a small fixed social security income I feel no parallel exists because my late husband and I worked a collective seventy years before being eligible.
Meanwhile, I have a son-in-law who works sixty hours a week so my daughter can stay home with their two children. They struggle to pay house payments, bills and medical insurance. Fourty percent of his overtime pay is taken by the IRS to finance.....guess what.....programs to proliferate and multiply the free lifestyle of people like my neighbors and to help them engage in their hobbies, the latest of which is hoarding sick, disease carrying, unvaccinated, free roaming cats with taxpayer’s money.
The numbers of freeloading parasites have begun to outpace the numbers of struggling taxpayers who have their hard won money stolen from them by the Socialist machine to support and proliferate the deadbeat portion of society. Yes, the collapse will happen soon and all those parasitic bums will be coming for the rest of what we have because they think they deserve it.
Would I do what they do if I was destitute? I can honestly say no, I would not because I have been and didn’t. But then, I’m old and come from quite a different world. My father taught me that it was a shame and disgrace to be lazy or to steal.
cant tell if that was sarcasm or if Pelosi really said that.... making bowls or writing poetry at home while on welfare...
One could make less on welfare than work and still come out ahead after factoring in all the extra time available for fun.
Fat, dull and soft is no way to go through life.
Back in 2008 things were going well enough financially that I voluntarily left the workforce to spend more quality time with the kiddos. After 15 months I was itching to get back to work to get the feeling of being a productive adult. Being a stay-at-home dad was great but some of us just need the challenges of combining employment with our personal lives.
Welfare is simply not an option unless there are no other options left.
Yes. She did say that. Right after the 2008 elections.
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