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Originally Posted by filtherton
So what are you trying to say? That the majority of those on PA are just gaming the system? Do you have any proof? Where do you get this notion that abuse of PA is a widespread problem?
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If you're looking for actual statistics...no, I do not have them. Nor does anyone else. If those figures were available...and made public...then I believe that would be the death nell to the system as a whole. My
proof is in my experience.
I have
seen, with my own two eyes, people dressed in the latest Tommy Hilfiger, sporting $75.00 hairdos, wearing $150.00 Nike sport shoes, buying groceries that I have to pass over...and paying for them with food stamps.
I
see these same people living in section 8/H.U.D. homes that, by law, must be kept to a "standard" that it's sometimes difficult to keep my
own home. Of course, when it's trashed, guess who also gets to pay for the renovation.
The Salvation Army gives out plastic trash bags full of age appropriate toys, to needy children, at Christmastime. A very noble cause, as I hate to see
any child do without...especially at Christmas time. Yet, when i saw, on the local TV news, the toys being distributed, every...single...car,
all of them, that pulled up to receive the distribution, was much nicer and newer than the car that I drive to work every day. Yet, the ones driving those cars were telling the news crews things like; "This is so great. Oh, thank God. I didn't know
what we were going to do for the kids this year."
I could go on, but you get my point. The
proof is in the pudding.
I'm not some cold heartless bastard that wants to see little children starve, because they weren't born to a higher station in life. There
are people that truly, for whatever reason, need help. I do not begrudge them that. What I object to, are the people that do better on "the system", without so much as having to move off of the front porch, than the guy that busts his ass on a shop floor all day long.