filtherton

Here's the thing. From my experience, most upper middle class americans are whiny, sniveling, self important gasbags. The proof is in the pudding of my personal experience. I am, however, aware that my personal observations do not make up the whole of what reality is. There are a great many upper middle class americans that i have never come into contact with. There are a great many, i'd assume a majority, of people on PA that you have never come into contact with. Perhaps you have some sort of sampling method to determine which PA beneficiaries you will observe, but i somehow doubt it. It doesn't make sense to make to make bold proclamations without any sort of acceptable evidence to back them up. I wouldn't expect to be taken very seriously if i did such a thing myself.

If you want to complain about people gaming the system, that's fine. I'm sure most americans would agree with you that it is wrong for people to game the system, especially when those people are poor and the system is PA. Just don't pretend that you have any kind of factual basis on which to make the claim as to any specific percent composition of cheaters on public assistance.

It doesn't matter if you don't need public assistance. I don't need a math tutor, but i can see wisdom in the fact that they exist, and i don't begrudge people who make use of their services(which tuition helps to pay for at my school).