[dwd1]

I try not to judge too harshly when I am reminded that I did not live in that time and many people are simply a product of their time...


And I can not believe that all slaveowners were bad.... Otherwise, there would have been a much more extensive migration from the south and it's plantations after 1865....


In modern times, I can tell you that the system of public assistance is set up to discourage participation... I guess I look at such things the same way I do eating squid or octopus.... I would need to be pretty desperate to indulge... And I would want to go back to steak and potatoes at the earliest opportunity...

I just don't have the stomach to deal with the BS that I have heard comes with Public assistance and therefore, I do whatever I have to do to stay away from such circumstances.... And I am thankful everyday that I am not in such circumstances...

[U S Army EOD]

I almost had to go on public assistance and I would have had to give up so much of what I had left I could have never recovered from it.

I thought it was designed to get you over a hump. Its not, its designed to trap you in it.