☭proletarian☭;2001413 said:
Welcome to the entitlement generation. My parents lived through the depression era and my mom especially had it bad, but they never asked for government assistance. Instead, they found work wherever they could, gathered their own food (including hunting) and tightened their belts. People used to be ashamed of accepting charity. Now people believe it's a right. My how times have changed.
Your so right. Times have indeed changed.
My grandfather on my Moms side, took off and left my grandmother to raise 4 kids on her own. Back in those days charity was a dirty word. My grandmother worked in a cotton mill in Thomaston, GA. The church folks had to convince her to take sweaters for the kids. My Mother detested welfare to her dying day.
People had pride back then. People today have grown up with Welfare, These folks think nothing of it because they have grown up with it and think this is how it has always been. They don't care that Welfare is simply spreading the wealth. Taking from those that earned it and giving to those who didn't. I know quite a few Welfare fraud folks out there. Yet when you call Social Services or go to Social Services to report it. Well, they pretty much tell you to mind your own business.
The Welfare system is full of abuse. Its one of those entitlements that loads take advantage of and that we taxpayers will pay for, forever. Don't see changes coming down the pike anytime soon.
I still wouldn't let a kid go hungry and I'm far from a bleeding heart liberal. Thats the kids. Not the adults. No reason an adult can't support themselves. None at all.
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