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Originally Posted by Derwood
the people in your neighborhood don't sound like they're living it up. First off, they live in a trailer park. Secondly, any "luxury" items they have were probably paid for by their drug money, not their government checks. let's not pretend they're getting $40k/year from the government. this is a joke.
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Sorry it isn't a mobile home park, although there is a few scattered about. I live in a county where there isn't any zoning so you can pretty much do what you want with your property. And while some of their luxury items may come from drug money, why should I as a taxpayer be responsible for any of their upkeep?
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Originally Posted by filtherton
Perhaps you could stop by my house. We used to be on food stamps because we didn't have enough money to buy formula for our daughter (breast feeding wasn't an option). Now we're not anymore, and I'm about 7 months away from having a BME with an honors-eligible GPA.
We didn't want to be on public assistance, but we ended up on it because we needed to be. We had the option of being on public assistance, so I didn't have to quit school to get a full time job. Theoretically, my future contributions to society will more than make up for the half a year where the government stole your hard-earned money and fed my baby with it. This is the social safety net working as it should.
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And you know what I don't have a problem with that whatsoever. I absolutely don't begrudge or hold that against you at all. Not one single iota. If you need it for a short time to get out of a bind that's what it's there for and I'm more than happy to help or to contribute my fair share. That's why we pay taxes and it's nice to see it work the way it's supposed to. Your right that's exactly the way it's supposed to work. It's not supposed to be a lifestyle. Hell I've seen people that although they was living together and they had several kids between them wouldn't get married because they/she would lose their/her government assistance when his income got added to hers. What's up with that? And while I think most people receiving assistance truly needs it and isn't taking advantage of the situation there's enough fraud in the rural county I live in to really piss a person off.