 kdwycha
join:2003-01-30
Riverview, FL
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Re: Internet said by brianiscool:If you keep on giving cheaper stuff to the poor. They will continue to stay where they are. We should not subsidize prices for the poor. This will just want them to remain at a low salary rate.
Yeah i'm quite sure the poor really want to stay at a low salary rate. :/ |
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| said by kdwycha:said by brianiscool:If you keep on giving cheaper stuff to the poor. They will continue to stay where they are. We should not subsidize prices for the poor. This will just want them to remain at a low salary rate.
Yeah i'm quite sure the poor really want to stay at a low salary rate. :/ There's no way [brianiscool] actually said that in all seriousness... |
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 pnh102Reptiles Are Cuddly And PrettyPremium
join:2002-05-02
Mount Airy, MD | said by PapaMidnight:There's no way [brianiscool] actually said that in all seriousness... It is still a true statement nonetheless. If someone can make a "good enough" "living" by being on food stamps, Medicaid, SSDI, LIHEAP, LifeLink (government provided cell phones) and any other number of welfare programs, then where's the incentive to move to a job?
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They get used to it and no ambition occurs. |
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It is true. I know several people who do it. The only thing they are driven to do is keep having children so they can get more welfare. I am not joking. |
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said by pnh102:said by PapaMidnight:There's no way [brianiscool] actually said that in all seriousness... It is still a true statement nonetheless. If someone can make a "good enough" "living" by being on food stamps, Medicaid, SSDI, LIHEAP, LifeLink (government provided cell phones) and any other number of welfare programs, then where's the incentive to move to a job? SSDI = social security disability insurance.
your really gonna say disabled people should be forced to work even if there unable to do so? yeah i know, im focusing on this one part of your statement, but im about fedup with people taking that stance. dads 70, has herniated disks in his back, herniated disks in his neck, blind in his left eye, has an artificial hip he got when he was in his 20's thats wearing out. you think he can work? fact is thanks to a former employer skipping out on taxes (something im sure the guy in your tag line would approve of since it meant more profits for the company) hes on ssi, $698/month, think you could live on that? its not as easy as people think, and no, he doesnt get all those things you just listed, people seem to think every one on ssi is gaming the system.  |
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pnh102Reptiles Are Cuddly And PrettyPremium
join:2002-05-02
Mount Airy, MD | Why yes, I do think too many people are gaming SSDI as a freebie for when their unemployment benefits ran out.
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But to be fair to you, this sounds more like an enforcement problem than a policy problem.
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CXM_SplicerLooking at the bigger picturePremium
join:2011-08-11
NYC
kudos:1 | reply to brianiscool
Isn't that also an argument to cut corporate subsidies? |
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| I believe the middle class needs more help than the poor. Middle Class people need to be awarded for working on a daily basis not the poor who sit around and do nothing. |
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Sammer
join:2005-12-22
Canonsburg, PA | reply to CXM_Splicer
said by CXM_Splicer:Isn't that also an argument to cut corporate subsidies?
It isn't amazing that despite the $16 Trillion in debt that neither major party is seriously campaigning to end the billions and billions of corporate welfare. |
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 tshirtPremium,MVM
join:2004-07-11
Snohomish, WA
kudos:3
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a great many of "the poor"* work just as hard, in some cases much harder/longer hours trying very hard not to be poor.
due to economic ,educational and individual disadvantages/disabilities many never had the chance YOU have.
* it's easier to classify/discriminate against some other group when you depersonalize them with names like "the poor" or "the 47%".
Try think of them as individuals, and Americans rather than something beneath YOUR status.
Maybe treat others as you would hope to be treated, were your roles reversed.
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