Saint John wrote:Lula wrote:It's called subsidized section 8.
Where've you been?
Watching ghetto urchents move into the apartments in my neighborhood and destroy home values and spike crime.
Lula wrote:Making sure that no one is denied care is in keeping with America at its very best, I am my brother's keeper, love thy neighbor, and all that jazz.
What keeps "America at its very best" is when people with no excuse other than pure laziness take a dip in the pride pool and start at the bottom and work to the top. I'm tired of people not wanting to work at McDonalds, Burger King, Wal Mart, etc. They're simply too comfortable with the free money they're getting and don't want to work for the equivalent of cents on the hour. What they fail to realize is that 2, 5, 10 or 20 years down the road they could be managers making exponentially more money. The solution isn't
another failed handout. We have generational evidence that points to the fact that this method has failed terribly. Get a fucking grip. That has only
exacerbated the problem. YOU and others like you, with this weak mindset, are a part of the
problem. Keep "giving" while they keep laughing. Fuckin' enablers.
Exactly. So many people are so proficient at scamming the system, that if they worked as hard in making something out of themselves as they do in dreaming up new ways to scam the system, shit, they'd be among the rich!
I keep remembering a time I did a Thanksgiving turkey drive last year and a family of 4 pulled up to get a turkey... in a Benz. Okay... bad enough.
Imagine my surprise when they came back at the end of the day to get ANOTHER one, thinking we wouldn't remember them?
Sadly, in my experience, this is far from a rare occurrence. They are brazen enough to do it where they are getting the handout personally... can you imagine when the handouts are coming to them in the mail or at some anonymous government office?
Libs, what is wrong with people working, saving money, and planning for the future? If you don't even have a GED and have a job at McD's, don't crap out 3 kids or buy a brand new car... etc. etc... and if you do, you must live with the financial consequences. The truth is, the vast majority of people don't want to start from the bottom like Dan says. There is a VERY SMALL percentage of people who can't hold a job down through no fault of their own (e.g. severe mental handicap, but excluding being a drunk or a drug addict like many who receive tons of aid). They can be helped along, that's fine in my book... but any one who either has incapacitated themselves through their own bad decisions, like drugs and drinking, or simply being lazy, does not deserve help.
All this weak-willed stuff is indeed part of the problem, as Dan said. It's ruining us.