Quote Originally Posted by Tim_T View Post
My daughter and her husband get earned income credit because of my grandson. Both work (daughter part time, son in law full time) while both go to school full time. They have lived on their own since they were married three years ago. I was at their apartment Saturday to pick up my grandson to take him to the monster trucks and must have missed the big flat screen tv, the fancy cars etc. I swear you guys see a couple of people defrauding the system and assume that everyone does it. It is f-n ridiculous.
I understand that Tim, and it is a bad assumption on my part.

I too know quite a bit of folks that get it too........BUT I also know a lot of those folks that use the "earned" income as a windfall and do stupid things with it.

If the gubment insists on distributing "earned" income, then it should be distributed in very SPECIFIC methods to guarantee it is used effectively.

When you accept a handout from the uncle Sugar, you should NOT have expectations of privacy or whatever when spending it.

And they key that you stated here......I suspect their usage of earned income is temporary because they are both trying to better themselves.

My whole point with these types of programs is they should have expiration dates.

Later,

Geo