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Thanks for what you've said. Ability to work is the key, isn't it? Thank God, I'll have that ability once again no later than March.

However, I am living independently. I have my own home on two acres of land in the countryside (bought and paid for in the years in which I worked). I could sell, and live off of the money from the proceeds. However, if I did that, I would lose all "benefits", and rightfully so. Our resoruces would then last a mathematical limit of 2 1/2 years. At the end of that time, we would be homeless .. read that public housing, foodstamps, public healthcare, and so on. It would be the end of our independence.

And so, we live in our home, and make ends meet with whatever resources are available to us. That has been the way of my life, and shall continue to be so.

Anyhow I think your situation is different than the vast majority of recipients of government assistance. There are some cases that make the exception --- I know of a family who were farmers, a large Protestant family --- good moral hard-working people --- the father was killed in a tractor accident, his widow with young children sold off most of the farm, had to resort to food stamps even though she still had a large garden and canned a lot of food --- there were young children and day care would have been expensive --- more than she would have brought in by working. It's not like the majority you see around here were the women and girls intentionally have many children without fathers just so they can live a life of mooching off the taxpayers.