Quote:Being in the Navy isn't the same as being on Welfare. That's just ridiculous.

 

I'm all for unemployment... Sometimes bad things happen to good people and you get laid off etc. But when you have zero skills or will to work and have been on it your whole life, and have more bay-bays to increase your check size, that's a problem.

 

Where did I say it was? The Defense budget is essentially funding a massive jobs program. Actual military personnel is a small part of it. Defense contractors are job creators, are they not? Do we need every weapon system, every new aircraft, every military base? I'm not saying much of it is not necessary, but please don't tell me the waste and fraud there is that much greater than welfare fraud and milked benefits.

 

Quote:Don't sweat it man, they "know" that it doesn't happen and when it does it isn't really a drain on our system. Never mind that you, me, and others actually "know" women who readily admit to getting knocked up for the bennies. What we know is irrelevant compared to what they know.

 

And I actually know people who don't. Why is your experience more relevant than mine? Both are anecdotal. Anyway, who is "they"?  Speaking for myself, I know it happens, and I know it's a drain. I just don't believe bennie babies (nice term from someone who places so much value on human life) are the massive drain on our nation's resources "you" (the collective you, since we're making broad generalities here, like "they") think they are. So what is "your" solution? Let the babies die? Don't feed, house, educate them or provide health care for them?

 

Is the answer to not help at all, or figure out how to make that help more effective?

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