Obama Speaks

[NM_Shooter]

You know what?  Maybe I should be one of that particular element that feels as though I am "owed". 

I've worked and paid taxes every year of my life since I was 14. 

I went to school on student loans and paid every dime back. 

My dad paid Social Security for 45 years, and died only 18 months after he retired.  I'll probably never see a dime of the social security that I am paying in. 

I've never drawn unemployment, food stamps, welfare, and didn't even qualify for the economic stimulus checks that went out. 

Nobody is bailing me out on my mortgage. 

I see illegals getting free health care, free educations, housing, food, discounted transportation.  I qualify for none of that.

On top of that, I donate time and money to charitable organizations, schools, and other community needs.

But you know what?  I'm okay as is.   At least until my taxes are raised. 

Then somebody better at least send me some free damn cheese.   

Just one slice.

-f-

[ScottA]

 

Free cheese? You're dreamin'

[peternap]

Interesting discussion.....

Pox is right, there is a whole workforce that needs and wants work and will jump at the program.

There is also the other side of the coin and they are the professional welfare families that don't know how to work, don't want to work and will hopefully, starve. During the depression we had the same thing though. The Hobo's weren't the fun loving adventurers we think of. They were for the most part, lazy dangerous people who would rather steal than work.

I never really understood the cheese thing.....

[considerations]

"I never really understood the cheese thing"

Cheese (processed) is from food "surpluses" stockpiled by the government as part of milk price supports. Butter is also stockpiled, and then provided under a subsidized food program like WIC and welfare.

The price support on dairy products is a form of price control with the intended effect of keeping the market price higher than the market would normally bear.

I think it started in the 1980's, because that is when the government bought out a bunch of the dairy farms out here.

[glenn kangiser]

You mentioned one of my favorite pet peeves, considerations.

I repaired a well for a big dairy owner who was doing a $100,000 remodel on his house to make it look like a mansion, but called me a robber when I repaired his well so he could have water for his dairy and actually charged him for the repair work at the standard going rate.