lmao !
Posted on 08/29/2013 8:50:43 AM PDT by barmag25
The entitlement class is starting to get a little pushy and the cash cow they are leaching off of is starting to get ticked off.
I'm sitting outside the Oakland international airport and a guy walks up asking for money. ( I don't give anything to people who ask, only those who don't) This isn't the first time somebody has asked me for a handout and probably won't be the last.
I didn't have anything on me anyway. I replied to the guy that I didn't have any cash on me. Sorry I couldn't help him. He looks at me and says there's an ATM right inside the door and stood there expecting me to jump up and run and get him a twenty.
What nerve and sense of undeserved entitlement.
I wouldn't post a vanity over a odd Occurrence as this one but between San Francisco and Oakland the past 3 days this is the 4th time someone has asked me or somebody around me to go to the bank and get them money.
Needless to say I didn't go get him any Obama money.
Expect to see a lot more of this.
They’re pushy, crass, brazen and bold.
Airport authorities ought to better police those freaks.
A friend of mine handles situations like this by giving a rambling speech in Serbian, complete with exaggerated hand gestures.
Of course, this only works if you speak Serbian, and the panhandler does not. :)
The real entitlement class comprises of tens of millions of unionize government employees which your paying *100* percent of their lottery style wages, benefits and retirement pensions...
It's just anecdotal, but I sense a real attitude rebellion brewing in this country, and when it explodes the entitlement class won't know what hit them.
“Vanity-The entitlement class is getting on my nerves.”
I could have posed the same idea. Of course if I wanted to put it in “Breaking News” I would have had to post it 30 years ago.
They are well past my nerves by now.
When I worked for Chrysler in the 1990’s one of my friends went to Vegas and a beggar asked him for money. My friend Dan then went into a spiel about the government having a safety net for people like you. The guy just stared dumbfounded at Dan. It was always one of Dan’s shticks to use when we were having conversations of who was going to buy coffee for the day. We always got a good laugh out of it in the Good Old days, so to speak.
When will obama phones come equipped with credit card readers to help redistribute the wealth.
lmao !
“Entitlement” says it all. Even worse than the aggressive begging is the total absence of a sense of gratitude.
You are just lucky he didn’t break a flashlight over your head because you resisted
I tell beggars: no thank you.
They stand there confused and then I repeat it for them.
They feel awkward and move on.
We did the same. Whenever I'm at a store and the cashier hits me with the "would you like to give a dollar to...", I reply; "Obama got that dollar". If they look puzzled I say; "go ask Obama, he has all my money"
I’d say it’s about time it got on your nerves.
It was money we paid in on every dime we ever earned. I am not begging for it back, I am demanding it back, with interest and adjusted for what was once called inflation but should now be called monopolization.
It is my money and I am entitled to it!
Telling beggars you don’t have anything to give them implies you would if you did. They are calling your bluff by offering an obvious solution. Suggest you try telling panhandlers, phone solicitors, etc., “no, but thanks for asking” and end all discussion. Shuts them down without triggering the rush of false outrage they crave.
The rise of the entitlement society was a direct result of the good will and charity of the American people and a desire to give people a helping hand.
The end result has been the exact opposite of what was intended. Welfare has kept people locked into dependency on government and a basic subsistence poverty lifestyle.
This is combined with an amazingly arrogant and in your face attitude of entitlement.
No one seriously believes welfare is a helping hand and support for welfare is dying fast.
Unfortunately, the levels of government dependent people are growing so rapidly that they are becoming a majority voting block that politicians are trying to exploit.
Right now the system chugs on using borrowed money but the entitlement system as it stands is not sustainable for more than a few few years into the future.
In really, the system is already dead, but it continues as long as we can borrow 50 cents of every dollar the government spends, but the deficit is just to large to paper over the fact that there are too many people riding the system and too few paying into it so it is going broke.
At some point the entitlement system is going to collapse when there is no more money to pay the system.
More taxes are not going to help because working americans already pay between 40-60% of their income to taxes so it will be difficult to squeeze twice as much tax revenues to cover our 50% Federal Budget deficit.
The lack of money to fund the system is going to leave millions of people who have no education, no job skills and most important, no desire to work combined with an an amazingly in your face attitude that society owes them a free ride without the means to support themselves.
On the other hand , we will have the people who are working hard and paying for the system having no sympathy for people who make more on welfare by not working than the workers who are paying the bills make for their hard work.
Not going to be a good situation.
I should of put this breaking news and typed it with the caps lock on
There are a lot of people HERE who are getting government checks -- and they're just gettign what's OWED to them -- and they don't understand how big the "entitlement" problem really is. It's different for them, you see.
arrogant and in your face attitude of entitlement
That’s exactly what I have been seeing.
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