Quote:Just, wow. I'm so happy you were able to find someone whom you despise that you can then use as a sweeping generalization for all workers and "liberals".


You bring nothing to this conversation but an anecdote about a woman that you don't even know very well, but are more then happy to pass judgement on.


You're a fascinating individual.

 

I never said that I despise her, and for your information I happen to know her very well.  She happens to be a very good friend of my wife's and I even wrote her resume for her to get the position that she has.

 

I'll give you another example that I have seen in my own workplace.  A fellow technician that I worked with (he actually used to be my supervisor) was earning very good money.  I'm not talking a lower wage, I'm talking close to 6 figures (at the time in 2001'ish).  He was divorced with a child that lived with him, and married a divorced woman with two children.  He would constantly come to work and tell me about his electricity or gas being shut off at his home because he was behind on his bill... while he sipped his Starbucks coffee and then proceeds to tell me how they went out for sushi for dinner (I used to work the overnight shift).  He also commonly talked about bouncing checks and/or "floating" checks using those payday loan kind of places.  Again, this is someone making $75k+ in Jacksonville which is a pretty good wage.

 

They decided that they wanted to have a child together, and he used to complain a lot about Medicaid while they were going through the pregnancy.

 

Now I really don't care about his poor life decisions, but what I do have a problem with is someone that makes far more than a "living wage" using government assistance.  When someone that certainly has the means but refuses to act responsibly has the "need" to use my tax dollars, I have a big problem with that.

 

By the way, he ended up getting fired.  Why?  Because he had a horrible credit history (among other things) which will get a security clearance revoked in a heartbeat.  I eventually took over and held his job for a few years until I moved up and moved on to better things.

 

My point is, that yes there are times when people need help.  I don't have a problem with that.  However, far too many people are too dependent on government to do for them what they should be doing for themselves.

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