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In article >,
Orlando Enrique Fiol > wrote:

> wrote:
> >Yet, there are a lot of women of that generation who are still on
> >welfare, as are their children. Meanwhile, the rest of us went to
> >school, got jobs, found places to live and then had children. What
> >suckers we were. We could have stayed home and let others support us.
> >Instead, we paid higher taxes to look after them and their kids as well
> >as ourselves.
>
> You make it sound like life below the poverty line is a sumptuous
> picnic. Have you ever asked these scores of welfare recipients you know
> to provide you detailed budgets so that you see what their lives are
> really like? Have you ever been to a food bank or gone to an electric or
> phone company in tears because service got cut off? Have you ever had to
> boil water to take a hot shower because the landlord turned off the hot
> water heater? Have you ever seen your children covered in rat bites? I
> suspect not, which means you know nothing about what life on welfare
> actually is. As for your precious tax dollars, I don't see you
> complaining when your taxes are used to fund wars, pay crooked
> representatives or selectively patronize certain art forms over others.
> Yet, when 1% of your taxes go toward the poor, you rant and rave on here
> as though you were being ripped off.
>
> Orlando

Good rant and perspective. Well done.

The cost of our trying to police the world could help a lot of people.
But the cost of Bush's war is a whole 'nuther subject/rant.
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Peace! Om

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