[2ndDivisionVet]

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[CorporateStepsister]

These losers are the new aristocrats; enjoying the benefits of society while not really contributing towards it. Get a title (the degree) and no longer do you have to bother actually working, you get it all handed to you.

[Freelance Warrior]

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Scrap foodstamps and all kinds of benefits. Or make them laughably low. Replace them with Roosevelt-style public works, food-for-physical_labour style. I think some roads can be built and some toilets need cleaning.

[Lorianne]

Convoluted writing but spot on.

[Vince Ferrer]

There was a time where women went to college to get an MRS degree, and I am telling you that that time is today, there is nothing else of value in there. Sure, some college women go on to become doctors and CEOs, and some go on to become child pornographers and Salon writers, none of those things have anything to do with what happened in college. If you are going to college to get an education and not to meet guys, you are insane, literally insane, delusional, in reality one is never going to happen and the other is going to happen anyway, and you could have gotten both for free at a bookstore. Worked for me. The only question for the future single mom is whether it's worth $XXXXXX a year to meet guys, and the answer is of course it's not, even nightclubs let ladies in for free.

There is a lot of truth in here. I have been on record writing here back in 2008 or so that this depression was just as much a moral one as economic, and we will not get past it until we revert back to a much more traditional work ethic and outlook. Traditional marriage will make a comeback, because in the end, you can trust your family more than your government.

[DemforBush]

““I’m sort of a foodie, and I’m not going to do the ‘living off ramen’ thing,” he said, fondly remembering a recent meal he’d prepared of roasted rabbit with butter, tarragon and sweet potatoes. “I used to think that you could only get processed food and government cheese on food stamps, but it’s great that you can get anything.””

This was the point in the article where I was hoping to see someone channel George C. Scott as Patton: “You’re going back to work, my friend! You may be selling hot dogs in a convenience store, or you may be freezing your butt off as a night watchman in a warehouse, but you’re getting off the taxpayer’s back and going back to the job market!”

[Organic Panic]

My problem with this whole article was it is an obvious trap for conservatives. What does “they’re not even black” have to do with anything? For me, it is just set up to get people to claim how everyone who opposes the welfare industry is racist.

[informavoracious]

I majored in English. I’ve done just fine.

[Caipirabob]

Well, it may not be the same group but my wife and I have been disturbed by the sudden appearance of very young panhandlers on the street corners in areas we've not seen them before. Young men AND young women with hard luck signs begging drivers for money.

It's never been so bad before. I know the economy in in the toilet, but this is an epic level of the number of beggars in the streets.

[Nuc 1.1]

It’s not about hate. It is about ethics. The author misses the point entirely. If you are able, it is not moral or just to live off the effort of others.