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wac3rd@freerepublic ^ | March 11, 2011 | wac3rd

Posted on 03/12/2011 10:28:29 PM PST by wac3rd

Context: A standard Safeway in an upper-middle class East Bay suburb of San Francisco, 8:30 PM PST.

I just got home from the grocery store where I went to get a few items for my wife (vegetables, chicken) etc. and was getting my retired Dad a gift card so he can make ends meet. He is not doing well and living on Social Security and a part-time job, and I know he needs the money for food (and dog food).

I was going through the self-check out but there was a sign "no gift cards" so I went back into the regular line.

There were two women, both about 5' tall and only spoke Spanish, they had 5 children, all under 5 years old and they were chatting and screaming, normal kid stuff.

They had a full basket, and when they were done, pulled out WIC (Food Stamp) cards and charged over $200 on it. The card didn't take the first time, they had to remove items, etc. but finally, the Latino family left the grocery store.

I only had a few items, including my father's gift card, so I came out right as one of them drove up in a late model Ford Expedition with the shiny flashy rims. There were 5 car seats and some kind of Spanish music coming out of the speakers.

I bust my ass to feed my family, pay taxes and keep my family above water...who the hell takes my tax dollars to give to these illegal invaders and their spawn?

I was so angry thinking of my Dad back East clipping coupons while these 3rd Worlders steal every week from the US taxpayer.

I am angry, really angry. I have had enough.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; US: California
KEYWORDS: dncvotebuys; foodstamps; illegalimmigration; ipayfordncvotes; mexico
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1 posted on 03/12/2011 10:28:34 PM PST by wac3rd
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To: wac3rd

“Everything free in America”

Sad what’s become of our country, ain’t it?


2 posted on 03/12/2011 10:30:43 PM PST by GOPsterinMA (Some men DO just want to watch the world burn.)
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To: GOPsterinMA

You know, I really am not angry at the family or the children, the kids are innocent. I am mad at the system and the pandering, loser politicians (both GOP and Dem) who will do anything for power, even bankrupt us.


3 posted on 03/12/2011 10:32:27 PM PST by wac3rd (Somewhere in Hell, Ted Kennedy snickers....)
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I have to repair an expensive fence that an illegal alien with no insurance and driving an Expedition ran through. He was DWI and the police let him go..bogus address, bogus insurance and I am having to spend a couple of $K to repair the fence out of pocket. Illegals cost everyone somehow. I can’t even afford to drive an Expedition.


4 posted on 03/12/2011 10:36:40 PM PST by vetvetdoug
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To: vetvetdoug

Here is the irony of the entire thing...Anglos have elected to let this happen, yes, I said it, let this happen.

There is time, but we need to act, the uterae are working OT.


5 posted on 03/12/2011 10:42:04 PM PST by wac3rd (Somewhere in Hell, Ted Kennedy snickers....)
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To: wac3rd

The ongoing illegal immigration “invasion”, really, could lead to a civil war, eventually. All problems related to illegal immigration must come to an end, asap, or else, the majority of law abiding people throughout the U.S. will make sure that it does come to an end, sometime in the future. A country without laws can’t survive as a country. Look at Somalia. Look at all of The Third World.


6 posted on 03/12/2011 10:42:43 PM PST by johnthebaptistmoore (If leftist legislation that's already in place really can't be ended by non-leftists, then what?)
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To: wac3rd

“The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public’s money.”

— Alexis de Tocqueville (Democracy in America)


7 posted on 03/12/2011 10:45:23 PM PST by Jack Hammer
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To: johnthebaptistmoore

Why does the Government side with the non-citizens, as brazen as in the Oval Office (Reagan, Bush, Clinton, Bush and Obama) and the Senate and House floors? It astonishes me.


8 posted on 03/12/2011 10:45:46 PM PST by wac3rd (Somewhere in Hell, Ted Kennedy snickers....)
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To: wac3rd

That message needs to get out there into the minds of Americans.

My 2 cents...

Because yes, we need to work in our own businesses to regain prosperity, but we also need to be the ones who get politicians elected, so they work for us, and we need to get many judges impeached to they don’t invent their own laws.

The only laws that need passing are those effecting the undoing of the mess that we now have. We need politicians with the courage to actually make the U.S. post-racial. That would end virtually all assistance programs, turning over all that effort to familes and churches before government. That would allow everyone to get beyond believing in a lie that they can’t make it, and instead give everyone a sense of responsibility and “skin in the game”. Honorable politicians would ensure that we all pay the same tax rate on income, and eliminate deductions. They would also identify the islam as the enemy that it is.

This looks bad now, but success is actually easily possible and would completely astound the world and serve as an example.


9 posted on 03/12/2011 10:46:47 PM PST by PieterCasparzen (Huguenot)
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To: wac3rd

That is crap....

They Know exactly what they are doing...

Milking the system and ripping us off...

I DO Blame them.


10 posted on 03/12/2011 10:49:05 PM PST by LtKerst (Lt Kerst)
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To: wac3rd
All guilty except the children who didn't ask to be made. Of course, the reality is the overwhelming majority of the kids will do the same thing the parents did - full circle if you will.

Birth control, starting with keeping one’s legs closed all the way through “the woman's right” should ensure no needy children or families, right?

Genitalia are used for pocketbooks. There's no reason for “oops” to occur in 2011, let alone multiple times.

11 posted on 03/12/2011 10:49:41 PM PST by GOPsterinMA (Some men DO just want to watch the world burn.)
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To: PieterCasparzen

You hit it on the head. I like the way you think, FRiend.


12 posted on 03/12/2011 10:51:23 PM PST by wac3rd (Somewhere in Hell, Ted Kennedy snickers....)
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You want anger, go to one of your govt buildings where food stamps and welfare are handed out, looks like a damn auto show in the parking lot. I was there for someone else but I had to ask how someone driving a 40,000 car can get welfare and he said they claim a $300 car with little or no income, they don’t have the manpower to check it all out. I had a customer who lived in a $500,00+ house, collected probably 100,000 in retirement and still collected welfare because “Why not, it’s free” First time I almost punched a customer.


13 posted on 03/12/2011 10:51:35 PM PST by Pylon (Tagline: (optional, printed after your name on post):)
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To: wac3rd

What a Country!


14 posted on 03/12/2011 10:51:59 PM PST by scannell
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To: wac3rd

Almost as much fun as getting a BS speeding ticket from a cop in a brand new $30K+ car, while you’re driving a 12 year old station wagon.

This government needs a major refocusing.


15 posted on 03/12/2011 10:52:14 PM PST by Eldon Tyrell
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To: GOPsterinMA

I have experienced the same recognition that these f’n illegals are sucking us dry. LA county alone spends several billions a year on these parasites..time to change all this


16 posted on 03/12/2011 10:54:44 PM PST by Stayfree (Find out the truth at RewardForObamasBirthCertificate.com!)
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To: Eldon Tyrell
Almost as much fun as getting a BS speeding ticket from a cop in a brand new $30K+ car

Before or after the cop admits to you that he himself speeds regularly?

17 posted on 03/12/2011 10:55:57 PM PST by rabscuttle385 (Live Free or Die)
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To: Pylon

we have to expose this to the people who vote in order to change this nonsense


18 posted on 03/12/2011 10:56:21 PM PST by Stayfree (Find out the truth at RewardForObamasBirthCertificate.com!)
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To: wac3rd

January 27, 2005

(condensed from a review of the book by Marvin Olasky, “The Tragedy of American Compassion”. http://www.thepriceofliberty.org/compassion.htm Click on the link to read the entire book free!)

...Many in the poverty trade today would like us to believe that the difficulties and temptations people face now are somehow unique, more complicated and intractable than any in the past. But 17th, 18th, and 19th century America had it all: alcoholism, drug addiction, illegitimacy, crime, unemployment, abuse, social upheaval, grinding poverty. The crucial difference: those engaged in charity had a frank, clear-headed, unsentimental view of human nature - and they believed the problems were moral and spiritual ones, requiring moral and spiritual solutions.

Throughout our history, private, predominantly religious charities proliferated: ...literally hundreds of such groups that sprang up across the country ... The crucial understanding was simple yet profound: people were helped because other people took a personal interest in them.

And for decades, there was a consensus among those engaged in the work of these organizations, and among society at large: that some poor (destitute through no fault of their own) were deserving of help and others were not; that much poverty resulted when human beings, of their own free will, chose destructive paths (alcohol and vice); that such erring individuals should and could, with God’s help, change course; that all able to work, must; that those who helped must give of their time, must give of their love, must give religious counsel and encouragement and admonition; that money alone, given indiscriminately, was poisonously destructive.

Olasky summarizes the ideas that energized charity workers a century ago...

AFFILIATION. Charity organizations instructed all volunteers to work hard at restoring family ties;...

BONDING. The charitable volunteer was expected to become deeply involved in the lives of those in need ... (contrast with today’s social worker, juggling dozens of welfare “clients” and mountains of bureaucratic paperwork.)

CATEGORIZATION. Charities did not treat all the same. There were those “worthy of relief” (orphans, the aged, the terminally ill, etc.); others were given a work test, often to chop wood, and classified as “needing work rather than relief.” The alcoholic, unscrupulous, or lazy who were unwilling to change were labeled “unworthy, not entitled to relief.” Volunteers visited them to exhort, not subsidize.

DISCERNMENT ... Volunteers were alert to potential fraud. They also knew better than to give money to alcoholics, which was considered immoral...

EMPLOYMENT. “If a man will not work, neither shall he eat,” ... Work by the able-bodied was considered critical to health - physical, spiritual, psychological, familial, societal - the undebatable first principle of American charity ... In the absence of a job, able-bodied men chopped wood for the charitable organization’s use, and women sewed clothing for the charity’s distribution.

FREEDOM. This was defined as the opportunity to work and worship without governmental restriction, to get a foot on the lowest rung of the ladder...

GOD. Theology was the essential key to American charity for centuries. Relief was never separate from the acknowledgment of the spiritual reclamation and redemption possible for fallen human beings. And spiritual transformation was the only thing that could change an alcoholic, addict or abuser into a productive, temperate citizen.

The “tragedy” of the book’s title occurred when this slow process, this one-by-one, individual-by-individual, person-to-person work, was seen by the elites early in this century as not being enough. Why not do more? Why not make relief universal and immediate? The elites disagreed with the common view that poverty was often the result of vice, freely chosen. They, instead, believed that people were naturally good; the mass transformation of society and elimination of poverty were possible if wealth was redistributed. And of course, charitable work had to be rid of this bothersome religious claptrap.

... The job to make relief universal to anyone who qualified (that is, anyone who was entitled to it) was handed over to the state... Gone was the emphasis on personal responsibility. Gone was any penalty of able-bodied and mentally competent individuals who would not work. Gone was any scrutiny of behavior, since that was caused by “society” anyway.

... Has poverty been eliminated, or even reduced? And what of the poverty of spirit that stalks the streets of every once-great American city?

Americans have, by bitter experience, once again learned what those in centuries past already knew: that relief provided by the state is “not generous but stingy - stingy in human contact, stingy in its estimation of what human beings mad after Gods image are capable of doing and becoming.” Now that we have learned, it may finally be time to re-examine - and recreate - the great generosity of traditional American compassion.


19 posted on 03/12/2011 10:57:56 PM PST by Drango (NO-vember is payback for April 15th)
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I know a couple who were getting food stamps.

$400 a month FOR 2 PEOPLE.I often times work 10-12 hour days, once in awhile 14-15-16 hr days. Seldom 20+.

Often times 6-7 day work weeks.

I get paid a good hourly wage.

But I shop the sales. Whatever meats on sale, at a GOOD sale price, I buy it (sub $3#). I buy canned goods when they are near 50% off. I buy whats on sale, and enough of it, to make it to the next sale.

I work hard at my job, and often times long hours. Then I work hard trying to make my money go farther.

I spend about $200 a month on food for 2 people. And the free loaders get twice as much as I spend. $400 a month for 2 people, there'd be some sirloins and t-bones, instead of ground chuck and chuck roast.

Of course I do like a good roast now and then.

20 posted on 03/12/2011 10:58:36 PM PST by mountn man (The pleasure you get from life, is equal to the attitude you put into it.)
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