Quote Originally Posted by kygorski View Post
I qualify for a food stamp. I also qualify for VA medical service, do i use them? No Ah figures, love em. So a lot of poor folks get benefits totaling 10 bucks an hour! Lets see you're poor 24/7, times that by 10, and its a good wage. My second wife was on welfare for awhile. Married one year, one infant, and her husband had TB, almost half a year of quarantine at a sanatorium,she couldn't drive, had an infant, no income, no phone, no winter clothes for the kid, that sure sounds like luxury to me.You guys can bitch all you want, most of it is valid, but watch your step. many of you are a banana peel away minimum wage.
In the case example you give, I really don't have a problem with the aid.

My problem is once you get past a certain point, and you've NOT tried to find a job or you're simply living off the system, I say CUT THEM OFF.

I'm sorry, but social programs are meant to be a hand up, not a hand out . We have way too many folks.....generations of folks who have known nothing but grubbing off of my taxes. I call ********.

And your point about a banana peel away from minimum wage.....Yea a LOT of people are that way.

I for one have always had short term and long term disability........either provided by my company or PROVIDED by me. I also follow the Dave Ramsey though process, and have 3-6 months of wages in liquid or near liquid instruments.

I understand some folks cannot do that, and that is OK, but I've always been one to lean towards the personal responsibility angle versus the gubment angle. Always have, always will. Does that mean I will never use a gubment program. HELL NO. I've paid into every **** program for 30 years. If I need assistance, I will gladly take it. BUT I guarantee you that before I accept assistance, I would have to be in a very serious bind.

Later,

Geo

Later,

Geo