[paint_your_wagon]

Or imagine if say 60 million people just all of a sudden went and applied for everything they could even if they weren’t “qualified”. Food Stamps, Obama phones, Housing, SSI, heck even Social Security. That in itself might gum up the system.

[Rocky Mountain Wild Turkey]

"What all the freebies have in common is that there is a *lot* of time and paperwork involved in getting and keeping them, including a lot of time spent dealing with overworked and sometimes unpleasant bureaucrats - I’ve been poor, and I’ve been “middle class”, and believe it to not, “being poor is one of the toughest jobs in America” - it wastes *huge* amount of time and energy just to stay afloat"

Hmmm? Interesting? So if this is true .... it makes more sense as to why people would vote for the party of "free stuff" ... If being poor is a "tough job", why would anyone vote against their job and lose it??

... sad, but enlightening... **sigh**