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What have we accomplished here?
Originally posted by butcherguy
reply to post by beezzer
What have we accomplished here?
We were supposed to accomplish something?
Now you tell me.
edit on 12-12-2012 by butcherguy because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by beezzer
Golly-gee-goodness-gravyboat!
(sorry about the swear)
29 pages?
For what?
One side: The government is awesome. They are taking care of people!
Other side: Of course! The government wants compliant drones and slaves and people beholding to it!
One side: Nuh-uh!
Other side: Uh-huh.
What have we accomplished here?
Originally posted by Starchildren
I agree with you, I have seen people who wear designer jeans and hoodies, with nice shoes and phones at the welfare office. They drive better cars than I do. I wonder how in the world they get any assistance. It truly boggles the mind. I was told if my hours increase at all, I must report it and they will re-adjust my food stamps. Okay fine, and I will be honest of course and do that, but they'll just take $100 off, and I'll still be in dire straits. The system is becoming so that no one gets ahead. I want to get ahead. This is NOT the life I had planned out for me or my family. And I did plan ahead. Somehow, I failed. I didn't get on top and become wealthy.
In your other post you mention family vacations. I so related to that. My daughter is ten and we have never taken a family trip. It's hard to explain to your kid that wants to go to Disney someday that this may never happen in her childhood. Not with the way things are going. My grand parents and parents must have been doing really well because every year they took trips somewhere. My parents always loaded us up in the car every summer and we had wonderful vacations. But life is not like that anymore. Not when I can barely afford gas for the week.
Originally posted by sirhumperdink
Originally posted by LadyGreenEyes
Get some real data. According to this link - link - Feed the Children has fed a whopping 350,000 children, all on private donations, in foreign countries. They have also provided food and other supplies to people n the United States. That is ONE charity. There are many. Add them all up, and you would be stunned what they can do, and in fact, have done. You state things as though they are facts, and you offer not a single shred of evidence.
edit on 11-12-2012 by Thepump because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by Honor93
reply to post by macman
ummmm, designed to do ?? hardly ... more like manipulated to do.
read again, that is NOT what the Feds were designed to do.
correct, no military, no tax-payer provided paycheck ... then again, according to you, all he had to do was breathe and have a pulse, so, why bother joining the service ??
he was gonna get a taxpayer provided paycheck either way, right ?
sounds as though he did but you know what ?
i don't know him any more than i know you so we could both be wrong.
words on a screen, my friend, words on a screen, nothing more.
no, skills differ, duties don't.
and, your inability to distinguish between the obvious amazes me.
still wishing for your instruction on how to obtain one of those "paychecks for breathing and having a pulse".
And your point is what?
i already know how the military does it.
nice try but i don't qualify ... too old, or too young, kids grown, no assets, wrong color ... i guess i'm just SOL, thanks anyway.
don't worry though, MY taxes will keep supplying all the others
We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.
Originally posted by Honor93
*snip*
i wonder, when was the last time you got along and fed yourself for $700 per Month, not per week like service members get.
Originally posted by sirhumperdink
reply to post by beezzer
how did the government put people on food stamps?
by not taxing the living hell out of any company that outsources jobs? (because anytime a bill comes forward to raise taxes on companies operating overseas the republicans filibuster and refuse to allow a vote on the matter)
what?
are you going to suggest our workforce should be competing with china or africa for jobs? (i would like to see what our economy looks like when people are getting paid $2 a day)
i would like to hear how you would solve this dilemma
to get people off of assistance you need to provide them with jobs that pay a living wage so how are you going to increase the number of jobs in this country?