[Pearls Before Swine]

Maybe the right response is not that Texans are performing poorly in maxing out the dole, but that they have more than the average amount of pride and self-reliance. The money does not grow on a tree; it comes from the working portion of the populace.

I’m not against a helping hand, but I don’t like to be taken advantage of, either.

[Hodar]

Maybe the right response is not that Texans are performing poorly in maxing out the dole, but that they have more than the average amount of pride and self-reliance.

Bump!!!

[ChrisInAR]

...it comes from the working portion of the populace

Either that or it comes from future generations or out of thin air.

[achilles2000]

“I’m not against a helping hand...”

Well, I am against any government helping hand. None of the women in the picture need a helping hand. What they do need a swift kick in the ....

The US has the world’s fattest “poor people”. In fact, “poor people” have epidemic rates of obesity.

Conservatives need to stop being intimidated by name-calling (”mean-spirited”, “no compassion”, “greedy”, etc.). Government transfer payments - all of them, including the “sacred” medicare and socialist insecurity programs - are nothing more than theft.