Nor would you be in error.
The difference being that:
1. I was not on it any longer than I absolutely HAD to be.
2. I did not take everything I 'qualified' for...really ticked off my caseworker too. She couldn't believe I turned down *free* stuff!
But that STILL doesn't change the truth of my original post, so what's your point?
Not really a point. I was brought up during the depression. there was no handout, there was no handup. We were neither lazy or stupid.
Someone here asked me to give my definition of poverty. I replied, "Hunger day after day is poverty"...
Perhaps we were stupid for being in that situation but I can assure you it was difficult to survive. We never asked for anything and were never given anything.
I try to temper my conservatism with this thought, conservatism is not all good and socialism is not all bad.
A child working in the fields all day under the hot sun, his pay being his dinner, does tend to make one be a bit more tolerant.