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What entitlements?

Social Security...... people collecting it were promised certain things when they paid into it..... IT IS government's responsibility to live up to those promises. SS would be fine if in the 70's and into the present Congress didn't fill it with IOUs.

Welfare, Clinton had great reform, Bush's reforms could be better but I'll grant you that people who refuse to work should not get paid, however society (and government) should do what they can to make those unable to work have some form of respectable life and income. That doesn't mean premium cable television, great cars and Rolexs it means a roof over their head, food on their table and the ability to have enough money to pay for their utilities and some form of lifestyle.

Unemployment..... Don't know about the rest of the country but here it is very difficult to get, when you do get it it is limited to what at most what your pay was, you have to prove you are looking for a job and it runs out in I believe 8-12 weeks. Plus, it is not all tax based, the company pays 1/2 and taxes pay 1/2. Again, as workers it is something the government promises us when we work and pay into it. That if we lose our jobs and we have legit reasons we can collect.

Heating programs where those in poverty and working their asses off need some form of help to pay for the excessive fuel bills so they don't freeze during the winter?

What entitlements?

Education..... where the tutions are going up faster than the loans and grants are, making college unaffordable to more and more people?

Or maybe you mean corporate welfare like ATP's (discussed here > http://www.tfproject.org/tfp/showthr...=100481&page=2 (POST 55))

Or the fact that Billionaires and Fortune 500 companies take advantage of funds designed to help struggling family farmers? (Talk about fucking greed destroy a program aimed to help those who truly need it...... )

Or other programs where Billionaires and big business work the loopholes to collect BILLIONS earmarked to help people who truly need the money..... then people defend Big business and the rich for these cheap ass tactics but degrade those, ridicule those and begrudge those for whom the programs were truly meant for?

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I just love people who use the excuse "I use/do this because I LOVE the feeling/joy/happiness it brings me" and expect you to be ok with that as you watch them destroy their life blindly following. My response is, "I like to put forks in an eletrical socket, just LOVE that feeling, can't ever get enough of it, so will you let me put this copper fork in that electric socket?"