[flashbunny]

I didn't take jack diddly squat from you. And your 'its none of your business' speaks volumes about you. You still have a pc and internet service yet you wish the government to take money from my family and others so you can 'afford' food.

I smell a DU disruptor....throwing in references to his AR15 and a 'shout out' to the troops in iraq out of the blue...this stinks to high heaven, especially your attitude that the people who are working owe you something.

[Stephen Ritter]

So, you smell a DU disruptor? I smell something, too, but's it not from DU (though they smell evil enough).

Flashbunny, I came into this thread for one purpose: to show how the system, as poor as it is, helps people who have hit the bottom of American society, through no fault of their own. Rather than do away with it entirely, what I propose is actually rather simple, if hard to implement.

First- The feds get out of the welfare business, permanently,

Second- Welfare is left up to the states, where it rightfully belongs,

Third- Unless profoundly disabled, any person has a 2-year maximum of benefits in any twenty-year period. This provides them with an incentive to find training and work.

Now, if the above marks me as a "lefty", or a "DU Disruptor", so be it. I can't help what people think of me, no matter what the level of their ignorance. No one has addressed a simple issue that I've raised: Why am I am commie, a pinko, a lefty, or a Du Disruptor simply because I disagree on ONE issue? I expect this treatment from the Left. But I though our side was more tolerant of the exercise of free speech.

It IS called Free Republic, isn't it?

And so, on my computer given me by my brother, and through the cable service (including cable modem) which I pay for, I will continue to press on, as it were ...

... though no longer in this thread.