I am wrapping up an $103,000 repair/remodel job on my home from the Florida hurricanes of lat year. We Floridians did not get free $2000 debit cards or $60 BILLION of taxpayer money to grease the wheeels. My insurance paid just a fraction of my $103,000, and FEMA ZERO (maybe because I did not apply).
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You are one of life's lottery winners. Your jealousy of people who might be getting a check that you didn't get does you no good. Would you rather have been living where you are now, or where Katrina came through?
Life isn't fair. You were blessed to have ancestors who believed in hard work, not government handouts. You are richer in every way than the impoverished souls who are being given a "economic stimulus" card worth up to $2000.
And other families are blessed to have been raised in familes that believe in government handouts. I believe government handouts do in fact exist, and that politicians use wealth transfer to obtain votes and power.
I do have some concerns about the president's programs and you have mentioned a key one. We haven't given this level of assistance to everyone and this might set up an expectation of increased government assistance for everything that nature throws at us in the future. And when people begin to get something, they want more. I was not happy with many of the survivors of 9/11 victims.
Lottery winner? Our families endured greater obstacles with NO HELP. The people of New Orleans have had far fewer obstacles than we had and took part in $30 TRILLION of help.
My grandparents walked/ran for 80 miles scavenging for food with radicals chasing them with weapons. They came to the USA and found a way to survive without government welfare. They did not know English when they got here. Are going to seriously tell me that my grandparents were "lottery winners" and the people of New Orleans have had it harder over the last 30 years?????????
My wife's hardships are the equal of my grandparents. At 13, she fled a nation at war with her brother and found a way to survive during the fleeing. She came here to the USA, got citizenship, got a job at Wal Mart, learned English, saved enough money to go to school and learn a trade and never used one penny of welfare and gvenment help, other than a student loan which she paid back in full.
Are you seriously going to tell me my wife had it easier (and was a "lottery winner") than the people of New Orleans, who have received welfare checks and other freebies for decades?????????
That does not make us lottery winners. That makes us minorities who had DESIRE and a work ethic and never wanted to hear what "discrimination" was. We "discriminated" by choosing right from wrong. We "discriminated" by wanting to go to school as opposed to hanging out at the corner.
It is wrong for taxpayers to continue to pull the cart for these people. We need to help the helpless, but nothing is being done to end the dependency cycle. Bush's proposals only cement further dependency.