No, I didn’t get banned from whiskeyfire. I guess I just didn’t try hard enough. :)
I did get the usual emotional responses, though. They called me names and what-not. You know, the usual liberal responses to a well thought-out observation.
I presented facts and options to help the Frosts help themselves. The whiskeyfire crowd responded by name calling and asking for the tax-payers to save the Frosts. What’s so crazy about selling a large house, buying a smaller one, and using the difference to pay bills? I suggest that and I’m labeled as “heartless”.
I know the experience. On another liberal forum, I was tempted to put a little aside in my comment about my view of the school lunch program when my daughter was in elementary school and 50% (!!!) of the children in that school were getting free lunch. I don’t even think they required showing your tax returns to get free lunch so probably a lot of people just lie to get the giveaway. IMO, its a terrible thing. I grew up in a working class family and we brought a peanut butter sandwich or a cream cheese and jelly sandwich to school every day and we made the sandwiches ourselves. It was very normal back then in the 50’s and 60’s. It was not a hardship.
I think the Democrats made a mistake using this 12 year old boy and then all the demonizing of anyone who questions the program. They’ve elevated the issue and now there might be some discussion of requiring the states to have an asset test for eligibility and requiring that applicants substantiate that the parents or at least one parent is actually putting in a 40 hour week.