Posted on 12/16/2011 7:45:27 AM PST by SeekAndFind
Lilly. My ass ain’t silly. Lol.
Exactly. We had two secretaries in the office, one for the protectives services and one for welfare services. The welfare secretary had been there for many years but one day she flipped out. It finally dawned on her that her working paycheck was less than what the clients were getting for sitting on their backsides. She told them what they could do with her job and walked out.
That’s one of the reasons I no longer work for DHS.
I really do hate my job and will sanction them in a minute. I’ve had anxiety attacks and am constantly in a bad mood. But, its a job. One positive is that it did make me go back to school for an MBA in Healthcare Management.
Well, it would ve a good start, anyway.
AS for those other things, except maybe for farmers, they don’t need a transistion period. Especially foreign countries.
most CHOOSE it via 3 bad choices:
1.drop out of school
2.get pregnant or get someone pregnant who you’re not married to
3.use drugs/get addicted
AND/OR all of the above.
I am for doing good to the poor, but I differ in opinion of the means. I think the best way of doing good to the poor, is not making them easy in poverty, but leading or driving them out of it. In my youth I travelled much, and I observed in different countries, that the more public provisions were made for the poor, the less they provided for themselves, and of course became poorer. And, on the contrary, the less was done for them, the more they did for themselves, and became richer.
Guess you'd rather they just junked the planes those seats were made for?
Truth be told.
And you know what kills me, the people that tell us that we should be “compassionate”.
I did my time, I worked three jobs at once and sold plasma to make my electric bill. It was also the “hand dealt to me” in having a sister steal me blind right after my mom died. I had all the bills and she waltzed away with the cash I gave her to pay them.
We also dug out of dumpters and bought dirty eggs to survive when my dad had terminal cancer, my mom had congestive heart failure and I was in college. The money I made as a hotel maid didn’t go real far. I’ve seen a lot.
Now I give to the food banks and work there with my kids. I love separating brand new make-up to give to the poor that I just spent 10.00 a tube for. My “compassion” is wearing thin.
Stupid people have no clue and just take the “people are in danger of hunger” crap to heart. I’m tired of it.
“Neither a borrower nor a lender be.
—Benjamin Franklin”
Sorry, but that line is from Shakespeare’s Hamlet. It comes from Polonius’ advice to his son.
“Neither a borrower nor a lender be, for loan oft loses both itself and friend.”
Let’s see. Will be one of my better years I guess, 10k from one job, 5k from another and 1k from the third.
Stop it, just stop it!
Who do you think you are, posting on the premier Conservative website your experiences and desire to take care of yourself, and stay off welfare?
Get your obviously deranged self over to the welfare office and apply, or better yet, get yourself about 3-4 girlfriends who can apply with you and "share" the welfare benefits with you. Those EBT cards can get you some amazing things!
Also, at least once every morning and evening, look in a mirror and say "Any failures in my life are NOT MY FAULT, they are the fault of My Mommy and Daddy, and the Government, and well.... just everybody! Including the cold hearted FReepers who will hate on me everyday!
This is your last warning! Freedom, self-determination, self-control, responsibility for self, etc., are NOT FOR YOU to aspire to. There are too many people who want to "help" you, and you must not disappoint them! You MUST be a needy, lazy, greedy, hand-out not hand-up kind of guy! Get with the program, NOW!
Oh, and by the way, once you have achieved your new status on the welfare state plantation, be sure and report what you're up to here on FR with regularity so that FReepers can hate on you. After all, haters gotta hate!
(BTW, while I was in the military, I once had to work 2 part-time jobs just to get the family through it -- viewed now as some of the best years of our married life [45 years in April], so I laud you for your determination and effort to support yourself in any [legal] manner necessary.)
“Just to be clear, we’re only talking about welfare for poor people, right?”
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The vast majority of the American “poor” choose to be that way via lifestyle choices.
I agree, the people who choose to be rich and still suckle off the Governmnt teat are much wiser.
I think you miss the point here. While there certainly are people who need TEMPORARY assistance, and a few who are totally dysfunctional and will need it forever, there are now multiple generations of losers sucking the life out of the rest of us whose mentality REALLY is “if I pump out one more kid, I’ll get upgraded from an apartment to a house”. (FROM FIRST HAND EXPERIENCE.)
And as an aside, there are the foster parent mills that this lifestyle has enabled, wherein people are pulling down $100K for providing a roof over the heads of five or six parentless, unwanted kids.
You should have picked a better school. ;)
Ok, I'm going straight to you-know-where for that one.
Have you ever been poor?
Well, I have been dead broke three times in my life and each time rather than taking a single penny from the government, I took anything I could as a way of making money. From the bottom I rose up without sitting on my hands whining why I was poor and everyone else should support me.
I have absolutely no pity on the so-called “Poor.” They can get out and “bust their ass” just like I did in 1972, 1982 and 1986.
I now am living a very comfortable life by the sweat of my own brow...not that of the taxpayers.
Freeze it! Totally. Don’t increase payouts nor income levels. Inflation will do the rest.
What has that got to do with my objection to you accepting the liberal view that everyone on welfare is “poor”?
ALL welfare should be reigned in. Severely. Simultaneously. They are not mutually exclusive.
Low blow ... *ass* ;0) at least I didn’t go to FAMU.
I agree. I just wonder why the author doesn’t mention it.
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