So you went on welfare two years earlier? Good for you, man.
No, I went on disability. Disability is not welfare because I paid into it all my life. It's just like insurance. You hope you don't have to use it, but if you get into a car accident or an electrical fire burns down your house, insurance is there to cover your losses.
That's because there isn't one.
Only in your mind. Everybody else seems to know the difference except you.
They manipulate the system, you manipulate the system.
Remember, if you really are for capitalism, you should work until you die, and if you are no longer useful to the One Percent/Investor class, you should dutifully starve to death.
I'm a vet. Wasn't in long enough to collect a pension and I don't go whining to the VA every time I need something. (I did get a VA loan for my house, but that was paid for by me, not them.) Pretty much the only government benefit I've collected is unemployment when we make the mistake of putting Republicans in charge and they wreck the economy.
How did I manipulate the system? A government doctor told me I could no longer do my job. I applied for disability using a prescription the doctor gave me. I surrendered all my medical files since the day I was born. Government medical professionals reviewed my records, and decided the first government doctor was absolutely correct. I could no longer work. How is that manipulating the system? After looking at my records, they didn't even call me in for an examination or tests.
Your problem is you use words you don't know the meaning of such as welfare and manipulation. You have a problem with people who worked for what they have but no problem with people who haven't. You embellish that crowd of people. This is why people with your mentality should never be in a position to run our government. When it comes to common sense or logic, leftists are void of that ability.