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Offline CAVY

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« Reply #60 on: November 20, 2004, 09:07:33 AM »
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*Sigh* Why can't democrats learn to take responsibilities for their own actions instead of always playing the victim and pointing the finger at someone else ?!
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,139142,00.html



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« Reply #61 on: November 20, 2004, 12:53:35 PM »
feh... the guy is 16. You think he's gonna earn enough money pumping gas after school to support his dad? It's like there's a string coming outta some of y'alls back - ya just pull it and the same sounds come out.
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« Reply #62 on: November 20, 2004, 04:12:28 PM »
I'm the problem? I said I'd work if it wouldn't screw everything up.

People like us NEED welfare. If we didn't have welfare, I wouldn't even be here. I wouldn't be in this house, we wouldn't have a car, and we definately wouldn't have money for food. My dad would've been dead, too.

I, as well as others, are not the lazy-ass people you think we are. Working would be great, but as I said... We'd be screwed if we did.

Oh, and I'd like to mention that we did "try to take action". My dad started selling insurance again about two years ago, but he got *really* sick from moving all over the place, and just couldn't continue. The government knew about it, and they reduced our food stamps from $350 a month to the $245 we get now. And let me tell you... $350 wasn't even enough to really get by the month.

Yes, there are people who cheat to get welfare --- but most of us really do need it, and don't have many ways of getting out of the situations we're in.
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« Reply #63 on: November 20, 2004, 05:13:36 PM »
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I'm the problem? I said I'd work if it wouldn't screw everything up.

People like us NEED welfare. If we didn't have welfare, I wouldn't even be here. I wouldn't be in this house, we wouldn't have a car, and we definately wouldn't have money for food. My dad would've been dead, too.

I, as well as others, are not the lazy-ass people you think we are. Working would be great, but as I said... We'd be screwed if we did.

Oh, and I'd like to mention that we did "try to take action". My dad started selling insurance again about two years ago, but he got *really* sick from moving all over the place, and just couldn't continue. The government knew about it, and they reduced our food stamps from $350 a month to the $245 we get now. And let me tell you... $350 wasn't even enough to really get by the month.

Yes, there are people who cheat to get welfare --- but most of us really do need it, and don't have many ways of getting out of the situations we're in.



point taken....best of luck to you and your family....You see all of us conservatives aren't bad.....
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« Reply #64 on: November 20, 2004, 09:32:15 PM »
You mean "not all of us are bad".

The ones where I live are horrible, and many of them are racist. My best friend's mom is a hard-line Catholic conservative, and she's openly voiced her opinions on people of other colors.

And, you see that most of us aren't bad, either. We all have a lot in common, but our representatives just can't get that through their heads.
« Last Edit: November 20, 2004, 09:36:30 PM by Fruda »
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« Reply #65 on: November 20, 2004, 10:30:53 PM »
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I'm the problem? I said I'd work if it wouldn't screw everything up.

People like us NEED welfare. If we didn't have welfare, I wouldn't even be here. I wouldn't be in this house, we wouldn't have a car, and we definately wouldn't have money for food.


Not to mention you lose your cable, computer, IP service, AH account, and brothers free college education. I'm with Nash on this one; this puts a human face to sad and heart wrenching story.

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« Reply #66 on: November 20, 2004, 10:56:22 PM »
Yeah because TV and the internet are SUCH luxuries. If they gonna be poor, lets not play games.... Strip them of everything.
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« Reply #67 on: November 20, 2004, 11:00:26 PM »
I guess they aren't, and you have no problem asking me to pay for it.

I'll make you a deal. You send the kid 6 months dues for AH and I won't ***** about paying for the food stamps or mention if you're on welfare, you better have rabbit ears on your TV.

We on?
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« Reply #68 on: November 20, 2004, 11:04:22 PM »
Ya know.... I pay the 6 months to kids on this side of the border. You pay them to kids on that side.

And.... I don't really have a problem with that. In fact, if I knew that it turned out that my portion of the tax dollars went specifically so this kid could get away from a sort of grim reality that I didn't have to face, and instead enable him to walk into the next room, fire up a stang and forget about it for a few hours, it'd put a great big arsed smile on my face.

Gawdammit... the *****ing.....
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« Reply #69 on: November 21, 2004, 01:08:44 AM »
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Ya know.... I pay the 6 months to kids on this side of the border. You pay them to kids on that side.

And.... I don't really have a problem with that. In fact, if I knew that it turned out that my portion of the tax dollars went specifically so this kid could get away from a sort of grim reality that I didn't have to face, and instead enable him to walk into the next room, fire up a stang and forget about it for a few hours, it'd put a great big arsed smile on my face.

Gawdammit... the *****ing.....


I gotta agree with Nash on this one.
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« Reply #70 on: November 21, 2004, 01:31:12 AM »
Fruda, may I ask what your ingame id is? If you dont feel comfortable posting it here you can email it to me at cyberpilot@earthlink.net

Thanks :-)
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« Reply #71 on: November 21, 2004, 02:15:11 AM »
The whole taxes thing, the welfare thing... the people who complain and complain. How does that saying go? Something like (and imagine a John Wayne voice) "We don't wanna give hand outs, we wanna give them a leg up".... or some retarded thing like that.

That's cowboy speak for I don't know what. They don't know what. However, I'm sure it produces tingles down the spine as the words are delivered.

But, just what does that mean? What is this "leg up" that you speak of? Give me an example of "leg up". What does it look like? And when was the last time you righteous folk even lifted one of these so-called legs yer own self. Not through taxes, because they're evil and lets pretend that they don't exist for a second.

No, I mean... When was the last time you wandered into the jungle and lifted a leg? How'd you make that happen? What did it look like?
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« Reply #72 on: November 21, 2004, 02:19:05 AM »
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But, just what does that mean? What is this "leg up" that you speak of? Give me an example of "leg up". What does it look like? And when was the last time you righteous folk even lifted one of these so-called legs yer own self. Not through taxes, because they're evil and lets pretend that they don't exist for a second.


It's the old saying Nash, give a man a fish and you feed him for a day, teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.

In America Nash many many people on welfare *could* work, they are perfectly capable of working. (Not talking about Fruda's situation here). They either dont want to work or dont have any job skills to speak of. Teach them to fish.
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« Reply #73 on: November 21, 2004, 02:26:38 AM »
Add fish to the legs.....

Another one of them sayings that doesn't mean squat in the real world except that it sounds good and somehow should make sense but sadly doesn't translate.

So you agree that there are folks deserving of welfare, and folks that cheat it.

That's great... now instead of saying little poems, tell me how ya solve the problem of not yanking welfare from the deserving due to trying to yank it from the cheaters.

Oh wait a sec... That's already an issue, state to state. Thousands of people are trying to figure this one out as we speak. Poems don't help.
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« Reply #74 on: November 21, 2004, 02:31:46 AM »
It's not a poem Nash, and there is no easy answer. You are correct people are trying to figure out how to yank the welfare rug from those that dont need it while making sure the people  who DO need it still get it.
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