Sheldon wrote:

On Sep 15, 4:08?am, Omelet > wrote:
> In article >,
> ?Orlando Enrique Fiol > wrote:
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> > 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.
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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.
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GM replies:

Yup, like a person I know who not only freeloads off of her partner (who
works 60 hours per week) but also off the public system. Got a sympathetic
doctor to diagnose her with MS and so she has a boatload of benefits (SSI,
etc.). Has also received settlements from several somewhat bogus lawsuits
against the po - leece, the last was apparantly enough "to buy a piece of
land and build a house" I was told. The last job she held (more than a
decade ago) she successfully sued for "racial harrasment" - this at a firm
that is very minority - friendly and her boss was a black woman...go
figger...!!!

This gal gets up at noon each day, then hits the bar for Happy Hour each
day, she drinks top - shelf Scotch only, natch. She tells folks she is
"too sick to work...sometimes I don't feel good...". Yet she attended the
Dem convention for a week in Denver, partying hearty, natch - and on someone
else's tab.. She's been to Europe *four* times in the past year and is
going again over New Year's. As she sez, "Heck, anyone with a spare coupla
thou sitting around these days can pop over to Paris or Berlin or Amsterdam
for a week...".

I guess I wouldn't mind *so* much, but she's very vocal about us "suckers
that work". When I once told her that she puts more energy into partying
than many of us do into work, she got all indignant, e.g. "But sometimes I
don't feel good...", to which I replied, "Well, I don't 'feel good' either
when that buzzer goes off at 5:00 AM, but...".

This is one of the more egregrious cases I know of, but there are plenty
more like this. "A party lifestyle on someone else's dime...", I guess I
shouldn't mock it but then I couldn't imagine living like this, I'd rather
be dead...


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Greg