My wife recounted a story within the last two weeks of being in line at the grocery store behind a lady in her twenties with a toddler. She had two "food stamp" checks in her hand because they hadn't issued her her "card" yet. Each check was for $400. We know because she was chatting up the cashier about how she was spending one this week and going to come back next week and spend the other. She told how she had gotten on the program because she didn't get any child support from the child's father, at least not above board (wink, wink). These were her words, not my mine. She then finished with that transaction and started a second buggy for which she paid with WIC. Keep in mind, there are just two of them, the mother and the toddler.
My wife checked out her stuff and walked into the parking lot just in time to see her pull out in a much nicer vehicle than anything in my drive way.
This woman just spent more on the two of them than my wife spends in two weeks on the six of us.
The American tax payer is being fleeced. Period. It is not "charity" if I'm forced to give it. Taxes are not charity. Charity comes with some amount of discernment. Apparently, government has none. If needy people were actually dependent on charity they would have to at least make themselves appear believable. That is not required if you're on the government teet.
"Entitlements" are going to be the end of the country. It's not any simpler than that. Half of the country pays no Federal payroll tax. Upset about the "one percenters"? God bless 'em. I'm upset about the "fifty percenters". Freeloaders who know that they'll never go hungry, naked or homeless as long as taxpayers keep giving up their hard earned money to those who won't.
I keep hearing about the unemployment statistics. How they don't include people who have stopped looking for work. How do you do that? How do you ever "stop looking for work"? How does that enter someone's mind?
I worked with a man once who, between jobs, roofed houses. I can't imagine a more difficult job. One that didn't pay anything near what he was used to, but he said he had to do something to keep bills paid and food on the table. Nowadays, between food stamps, WIC, two years of unemployment, and now this article (see below)... why bother. A study out of FL recently pointed out that extending unemployment benefits actually hindered folks from taking jobs. They would wait for a job that paid better, or had a shorter commute, or was easier rather than having to take the first thing to come along to pay the bills. Heck, their bills are paid so why hurry.
I'll leave with this, an article about how deadbeats (my word) that run all their other benefits out are turning to Disability Benefits. Good grief...
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/02/19/report-millions-jobless-file-for-disability-when-unemployment-benefits-run-out/?test=latestnews
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