Posted on 05/24/2010 10:32:16 AM PDT by AJKauf
Your are correct. The October 2009 stats are that 35 million PEOPLE represent 16 million households.
Totally agree. Where in the constitution is it written that we can have taxation without representation, which is what stealing from one and giving to another is. ALL taxes are supposed to be to provide direct government services to the taxed, not to steal from one to give to another.
I understand the sentiment but 80% of Americans (50% of households) pay no federal income taxes. The government spends twice as much as they rip off, borrowing the remainer. The unspoken plan is to run up the tab really good then default.
I'm for that too, as long as I don't have to pay for it.
I give food and money to my church's food bank but then again, they don't force me to.
I just think, "how much more could I freely give if I weren't forced to feed others".
They are out there ACTIVELY RECRUTING college students and higher income people to apply. I have seen posters promoting the fact that they really aren’t going to verify your income. Obama wants as many people dependent on government as possible.
It’s your entitlement and patriotic duty to suck as much out of this goberment as you can before it sucks it out of you! Just ask Barney Frank, an expert!
A small bounty for turning in fellow scam artists would solve that problem, if the government wanted it solved. There's no honor among Democrats.
What is worse is that now we have a class of society that considers it a point of pride to receive the EBT cards/food stamps. I seem to recall that as I was growing up it was a point of shame. Not in our current society.
I was in a local store a few weeks ago buying a gallon of milk. I usually only buy half gallons, due to my own disdain for waste. In addition, I am very budget wise and as a result I buy fresh enough half gallons of milk to last me through 2 weekends worth of breakfast cereals. In this particular incident, the dates on the half gallons were not fresh enough to accomplish my wish, however the gallons were fresher so I decided to buy one. I was standing in line with my gallon of milk and thinking that I would try freezing half of it so maybe I could stretch the gallon for the whole month.
So anyway, here I was standing in line and this youngish girl is at the front of the line purchasing a cople of 2 litres of soda, some chips and candy bars. She wips out the EBT card to pay for it and then another leech behind me starts hollering to her that it is the end of the month, so he is buying up a bunch of junk to use up his EBT card too. He was pretty much bragging about being a leech. At least the gal at the front seemed a bit ashamed.
Needless to say, I was getting rather angry about standing there planning to freeze half my milk to try and stretch my own budget while these leeches were spending their EBT money on junk that I am to tight to buy myself.
That is when I figured out that our current society celebrates their leeching and denigrates my frugality. We do live in an upside world.
I'm calling you on that. rednecks get theirs by hunting white tail....
The trouble with that is that the government has made it more and more difficult over the years to actually give someone a job. So it's not quite so simple as "get off your ass and get a job."
I was going to say Obama’s illeagl alien aunt.
At my WalMart the fat people on food stamps have to ride in carts because they’re too fat to walk!...some drag another basket loaded with junk foods.
Ding, ding, ding, ding. Fat @ss winner.
Now I will be noticing this. Thanks a lot.
We need to bring shame back. It's the most effective way to fight all the deadly sins, usually displayed simultaneously by a Queen Latifah plugging up the check-out line on EBT day: gluttony, sloth, anger, envy, greed, lust, and vanity, and the newest deadly sin: willful stupidity.
If the “offenders” in question have expensive cars and a big cushy house, I’m sure they’ve paid more in taxes than the welfare checks they’re getting back.
Kudos to those who work the system into fairness (at least for themselves) rather than just bitching about it.
I wholeheartedly agree.
There's a local food bank near me, run by volunteers.
They specifically limit their menu to inexpensive, nutritionally dense foods: canned/powered milk, oatmeal, bread, peanut butter, rice, dried beans, canned fruits and vegetables, baby food and formula -- because people trying to abuse the system don't want these types of foods.
After getting a recipient started with 3-1/2 days of food, the volunteers also offer guidance in getting help from other agencies and monitor their progress. If the recipients, don't follow through, the food bank will only give the recipient 1 day of bread and peanut butter or rice and beans -- and the recipient has to return each day for it.
I learned about them when making a donation of food. I was so impressed I sent them additional money, because I figure they could use it to buy more food in bulk at better prices than I ever could.
The food bank you talk about seems to have a good handle on how to do this.
Things would be very different if the role of CHARITY were left to the CHARITABLE instead of being taken over by self-serving politicians.
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