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I was in your shoes in 2009. It is a year that I will never forget as long as I live and pray to God I never have to repeat. It was the most humiliating year of my life. My entire family, including a disabled son, lived in a car and traveled the country looking for work that could not be had. There is nothing worse than paying in a checkout line with a food card and showering in truck stops. Both my husband and I discussed suicide more than once because the humiliation was more than we could bear. As an aside, coming to FR and reading the hateful anti-unemployment screeds is unwise. Stay off those types of threads. They will break your mind and do you in. If you stumble upon the ignorant, don’t bother arguing. You are wasting your breath and energy on the clueless. Best to put your energy elsewhere.

After failing to find work after a year, we started a business. We are much better off now than we had ever been in our lives. My only regret at this stage in my life is that we didn’t do it earlier. It took the Marxist wrecking the economy to get us motivated. We were always afraid of failure and of regretting giving up our cushy jobs and bennies. Now that your job is gone and you have nothing else to lose, give it a try. Just be sure that you choose something necessary to the economy even in bad times. THAT is the key. It will not be easy and there are times you will have to tell yourself that failure is NOT an option. Stick with it and you will succeed. Then come back to FR and slap an ignorant bitch that you probably have paid more taxes in a year than she in a lifetime.

There is nothing worse than paying in a checkout line with a food card and showering in truck stops.

If you truly believe this, then you've had an easy life. Congratulations.

So you were broke, looked around for a year, then started your own business and are making it. That is HOW IT IS SUPPOSED TO WORK. You know DAMN WELL that people like you aren't the ones that Freepers are complaining about. It is the lifelong, "I could work but why bother when government money is free" types that we're referring to. In fact, it is the very system that rewards laziness and entitlement and increases government dependency that is the CAUSE of our economic woes right now, yet you would say that the depths of those woes are justification for the system that caused it? WTF

I can't believe that I'm on FreeRepublic right now. I really can't. If this kind of whining, muddled thinking is what passes for conservative thinking, we're beyond done. To get on a FreeRepublic thread and see members being chastised for objecting to our ridiculous welfare system is beyond belief. Either you guys are trolls, or we are truly and utterly screwed. Guess what, IT IS NOT a Constitutional right to live a life free from pain. Accepting the pain and dealing with it in a proper manner is the true test in life. Throwing your principles out the window the moment those principles require the slightest bit of discomfort is pathetic.

Very nice name-calling and hatred. Are you proud of yourself? Take a look in the mirror to see all the vile things you call others.

Then come back to FR and slap an ignorant bitch that you probably have paid more taxes in a year than she in a lifetime.

Yes, liberals and looters always are delusional about the amount of taxes that you pay.