On Mon, 15 Sep 2008 11:39:42 -0700 (PDT), John Kane
> wrote:

>On Sep 15, 12:40*pm, "Gregory Morrow" > wrote:
>> Sheldon wrote:
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>> On Sep 15, 4:08?am, Omelet > wrote:
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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.
>>
>> 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...
>>
>> --
>> Best
>> Greg-
>
>Unless you can supply names and cases docket numbers etc I tend to
>doubt the accuracy of this.
>
>John Kane Kingston ON Canada.

There are always those people who can give anything a bad name. Even
here on rfc.


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