dubStrom
Veteran Member
- Joined
- Aug 6, 2007
- Location
- Kansas City Missouri
- TDI
- 2003 A4 Jetta (sold), 2010 JSW (sold), 2013 Passat 6MT traded for 2014 JSW with 6MT-TOTALED in November 2016, 2003 ALH 5MT conversion (sold), wheezing 2015 GSW/DSG and a new 2021 Tacoma Access Cab 4x4 p'up
Living at the bottom, attempting to maintain eligibility for foodstamps is neither easy, nor a goal. Furthermore, it is cheaper to give someone a pittance to allow them to buy some food, then to pay the cost of crime and other consequences of severe poverty. Some do abuse the system, true, But it is getting harder and harder.Plenty of jobs here... never seen a newspaper in my lifetime that did not have pages of jobs inside. And if you are not qualified, GET qualified. People need to be a little proactive with their careers, not just loaf around and get drunk, smoke weed, and protest things. Buncha damned hippies, LOL!!!!
And if you are NOT educated or trained, then you get those $12/hr jobs. You don't sit on your ass and complain about it, because then those jobs WILL go somewhere else. Problem is, if the Fed gov't is willing to give about 50% of the populace money from the other 50%, then why bother? I could quit my job today, and still get food and health care. This system does not reward hard work anymore. It rewards laziness.
Much of my reaction right now is based off of a family member, who is expecting his FOURTH child, gets WIC/foodstamps, has had one house foreclosed on, had a car repo'd, and just somehow managed to purchase another house. He has a poor paying job, so all their healthcare expenses are on taxpayers... and he makes so little he not only pays NO income tax at the end of the year, he actually gets money BACK because his fat wife keeps shooting the baby-cannon.
The exception is the WIC/foodstamps situation you describe. On most other points, I am pretty easy going, but as far as I am concerned, if youneed food stamps and WIC to feed a child, part of the program should be compulsory norplant implantation. NO exceptions. Extreme? I don't see it that way. It would help prevent the abuse of the system. I am sorry, but child bearing should not be considered a right. It is a responsibility, and violating that responsibility is just child (and society) abuse. Do it once, your done. Norplant until you go off foodstamps/WIC, and maybe permanently if you do it again. Baby cannon. That's funny, but not!
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