On Sep 15, 4:08�am, Omelet > wrote:
> In article >,
> �Orlando Enrique Fiol > wrote:
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> > >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.
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> > 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.
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> > Orlando
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> Good rant and perspective.

I'll agree it's a rant... but there's no true perspective... where's
the perspective about no account parasite *******s who refuse to work.

> the cost of Bush's war is a whole 'nuther subject/rant.

It's not Bush's war, it's a war Bush inherited from Bubba. In typical
Dem style Bubba didn't do a lick of work, in typical Dem style he
advocated living off the fat of the land, giving nothing back, and
thinking in typical Dem style that work means ****ing around 24/7.