Please don’t throw that comment around so frivolously. My military retirement and my Dad’s Social Security, which he paid for, is a part of the percentage.
Let me explain. I spoke to a crook years ago - and asked him about why he would steal from the companies he worked for... his answer was classic. He asked me if I would steal a loaf of bread to feed my starving children if that was the only way I could save their lives. I laughed at him. Then asked him, 'you're in trouble for stealing bread to feed your children?". He glared at me. I said, "you're in trouble for stealing a bunch of high end cars"... and he said, 'it's the same'.
Well, it's not the same.
And government checks going to legitimate places is not the same as us supporting half the inner cities with permanent disability checks for folks whose disability is they like playing baby ( this is a true story - you might be able to google it) with a girlfriend who also is 'disabled' because she likes to treat her 40 year old boyfriend like he's a baby... It's sexual kink stuff - but the rest of us will be supporting them for life - and they make more than many people who worked their whole lives at lower pay.
Helping kids go to college morphed into private schools 'teaching' beauty classes that no one has to attend - everyone gets a check - and when the bill comes due - liberal elites act like we want to stop helping kids go to college.
Scammers know how to milk the system. It's not the same as stealing bread to feed starving children - it's stealing high end cars to feed a drug habits and large lifestyles. That's what many of us object to... and it's not just the money - it's what that kind of money does to corrupt people ... to create dependent people who lack any self respect. If the money made these people better, happier, or something positive - it would be some justification... but it doesn't. It causes harm. Undermines things that are healthy...
Yep, he's disabled, and you're supporting him... how do you like them apples? If you listen to his tapes - he sounds convincing... the ‘disabled’ part comes in the last tape... I think he was traumatized by his lifestyle - even though he brags about it... anyhow, it's on your dime.