I have a co-worker who has two children from two different fathers, neither of which care to see their kids, nor pay a dime for them.
The girl is in her early 20's and is already on many forms of state assistance to help pay for her poor choices. Housing assistance, free medical, free dental, food stamps, free day care, the works.
She's obviously able to work, since she's working here, but she only wants to work part-time. See, if she works ful time then she makes too much money, and will lose much of her assistance.
We were talking earlier this week about medical insurance, and I was talking about how expensive mine is. $420 a month, plus a $500 deductible per person, per year. She starts bragging about her "plan", saying that she gets everything free and "it dont' cost me nothin' - it's great!"
I simply said, "you're welcome" and walked out of the room.
Welfare, single parenting, one-night hook-ups that result in kids were once shameful things that used to carry a stigma. No longer. Now they're proud of how well they're screwing the system to get everything for free.
Makes me sick, to be perfectly honest.
You summed it up well. Doesn't bode well for the future of the US.
"We were talking earlier this week about medical insurance, and I was talking about how expensive mine is. $420 a month, plus a $500 deductible per person, per year. She starts bragging about her "plan", saying that she gets everything free and "it dont' cost me nothin' - it's great!" I simply said, "you're welcome" and walked out of the room."
And I'm sure she didn't get it at all.
It's the inexorable advance of socialism, and I really don't see how we can stop it.
By the way, that irresponsible woman you work with? She's probably never done anything responsible in her life. But watch her get "educated," and register to vote, and vote for Hillary in 2008.
Good for you! That was the perfect response. (Though she may not have "gotten it.") When I'm in those situations, I never think of the right thing to say until much later.