This is America and those that are able to provide for themselves do so because of those that can't always afford to pay for things like health care. Were you in the military?
what does being in the military have to do with the ACA, I keep seeing it referenced but I dont really understand the premise behind it.
It goes to show a point. You like to make it out as if poor people don't matter...
Well Can a Colonel fight a war without grunts? Can a General win a war without cooks and truck drivers? Yeah those are low level minions... but they matter. Does that mean because they are low level they don't deserve to get VA benefits and other benefits for veterans? No...let's shit on them because they were peons in the scheme of things right?
and by the way, Grunts? low level minions?
why are you so demeaning and insulting to the people that are out risking their lives to ensure you are able to call them that in the first place? what is it about you that makes you think you are so much better than those servicemen, what you should be doing is thanking them for the freedoms you take for granted.. You certainly have no right to degrade them like you do.
Walk into a military bar and talk to them like that.
and its not the hand you were dealt, its how you play it. stop making excuses for lazy people.
There are those out there that honestly can not do any better, they were born with what would turn out to be a learning disability or maybe they were born with a physical issue that keeps them from being able to properly provide for themselves. These people I have no issue with helping. But those that are too damn lazy? **** them, let them die.
You seem to enjoy bringing up the military so consider this. You say these people were dealt a bad hand, born into poverty, cant get out of it because there was no money to send them to college.
Guess what, every one of them could have joined the military, they would have been out of poverty the day they showed up for boot camp, they would have schools available to them for free, they would learn a valuable trade that could be used to support themselves when they decided to leave the military, or they could stay in and retire after 20 years and then started a career. Someone goes in at 18, they retire at 38, then they start a career where they work for another 20 and retire from that. Now they are 58 with two retirement checks and if they are smart they take on another job that they work for 10 more years, just enough in some places to receive a small (very small) retirement check. So now at the age of 68, they find themselves retired and getting 3 retirement checks and, oh yes, social security. This guy that was born into poverty and joined the military at the age of 18 has had a good full life and is now retired with a crap ton of money coming it so he can travel, or spend it on the kids/grand kids. Whatever he wants. money is not something that he has to be concerned with.
It is not that hard to make it in this country, even if you are born dirt poor. Please dont insult the smart people here with that locked into poverty bullshit.
Grunts are low level minions compared to a Colonel or a General... hell some even take pride in being called that. Nice way to try to make a deflection... and attack me. Good try.
Maybe you should take your own advice and quit degrading and talking down to poor people just because a lot of them weren't dealt a good hand to start with in the first place.