Quote:All of it.  If you are capable of working then you should work...period!  Sitting on your duff and collecting subsidies is a slap in the face of every working American.  I say again, I have no problem with assisting people out of poverty.  Welfare for life does not do that.

I once decided to leave a second job I carried as a mechanic, and my boss, who I had an excellent relationship tasked me with finding my own replacement.


About a week later I went to a friends BBQ, where I met a guy who had lost his job as a GM tech something like 8 months prior. I offered him the position and he flat out refused because it was less than he had previously made at his old job, and argued why should he go back to work for less money when he can make nearly the same I was offering to do nothing?


I had to walk away without saying another word to him.

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