Posted on 10/09/2006 12:10:23 AM PDT by MadIvan
<< FRANCE: An artist of idleness tells how to work the system for 24 years .... >>
Thought it was an article about Airbus.
<< .... you know what i love about these guys...they think the state is paying ... like 'somebody' somewhere that just prints money ... >>
And "somebody,' somewhere, does. Hence the willful effective couterfeiting -- AKA "increasing the money supply" -- that, every 5-6 years, halves the value of pretty much every western gummint's unit of fiat money. Pund or Pound, Dinar or Dollar, don't matter, they're all counterfeited to "pay" their gummints' bills.
Have to say, though, insofar as their dole-bludgers (One or two of whom, I have it on good authority, regularly post to these boards) are concerned, I don't see much difference among any of dead and decadent Euro-peons' Neo-Soviet's failed member states. Including its offshore satellites.
BUMP ;)
I am not familiar with disability benefits for children, but it may have paid for medicine and therapy. What I do know is that disability is not easy to get and the above statement impugned everyone's integrity. SSD is based on qualifying 40 quarters of work, so it would not apply to children.
His book is titled "Moi". How appropriate. The book probably won't sell well in France, since each Frenchman is writing his own book with the same title, and has no interest in reading someone else's version.
What can you say about a society that identifies itself by one of the seven deadly sins?
I recently listened to a rebroadcast of a 1950s "Life is Worth Living" episode. Bishop Sheen said, "children who are spoiled by their parents grow up to expect the State to take care of them."
It's impossible for such a system to go on indefinitely. It will usually collapse violently.
I read a story some years back about immigrants to Israel. The immigrants who came from capitalist countries like the U.S. had the easiest (or least hardest) time adjusting. The immigrants who came from socialist countries like the old Soviet Union had the toughest time because they had to be shown how do everything. Even filling out minor official forms proved daunting tasks to those immigrants. The state had treated them like adult children and they had a very difficult time coping in a non-socialist country. That is one reason why socialism is so pernicious. It strangles initiative and self-reliance.
Please don't make me out to be so uncaring. I acknowledged that there are legitimate diabilities and that many parents do need help. But I know what I saw when it came to the school children and the parents who many times were less than cooperative with the administration. They just wanted the diagnosis. There was a definite system. Child is repeatedly reported for misbehaving in the classroom. Parent gets child diagnosed with ADHD. Voila, the mother not only gets a "calmer" child, she gets a check each month.
Since many of the mothers didn't work, I assume that the medications were provided by Medicaid or some other program.
Nice work if you can get it...
I could learn French, I guess. And, perhaps, learn the five pillars of Islam. Hmmmmm....
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