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.
Personally, I see war and massive economic upheaval in our future. The notion that we should tally up some reasonable sum and expect our "just" compensation seems, to me, to fundamentally miss the nature of the mess we are in.
What I would like to see is a social infrastructure which allows basic food (rice and beans and not too much more) to be distributed so that even in the midst of the apocalypse we can keep starvation to a minimum. I think that sort of thinking makes sense as a "social safety net". I oppose any government program which would provide any sort of more comprehensive social safety net.
If you can think a successful way to give tens of thousands of dollars to each individual who has been conned by the Social Security scam, then I'll take my hat off to you. But I think we need to worry about more desperate problems.
There is no money.
Far as I'm concerned I just won that argument -- unless you want to come right out and support budget deficits, confiscatory taxes and big government programs to redistribute wealth to benefit priviledged classes of the needy.
I'm on a Conservative site. Where are you?
And it's not others here arguments either.
You know that.
I understand your points.
Do you discount my point?
Is your point other than that?
Marvin Olasky addresses this in his The Tragedy of American Compassion.
As the government welfare state grows, private charity shrinks.
“I don’t have any money. All I have is this wedding ring”
They usually laugh and move on.
If I get panhandled I turn it around on them. “I was just gonna ax you for a dollar”
“No and if you find someone who is giving it away, let me know”
I think if you had gone to the ATM for the guy, he’d have had a gun in your face to walk you back and get more.
You’re understandably annoyed at these beggars but they’re rank amateurs compared to the bankers.
That's what I do.
Are you making the case that FReepers need to give up on the Social Security?
Read the thread. Lots of back and forth.
So what is your recommendation? Should I send my SS deposits back to the Treasury and not file any med claims on Medicare?
I'm so stealing that---thank you, LOL. Seems like every time I go shopping I get hit up for some charity or another....and if it isn't at the register, it's people outside the door.
See my post #33.
Amen! Social Security is the only gvt benefit that is NOT an entitlement. It’s MY MONEY in that giant slush fund and I want it back.
That's what assuming got me.
I was pointing out that, for many of us, social security is the only "entitlement".
I suggest you man up, and take the first shot. I'm right behind you.
If you're not ready to do that, then I suppose we're still willing to trust in the full faith of the US Government a little longer.
“It is my money and I am entitled to it!”
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