Again, it's unemployment "insurance". One has already paid a portion of their paycheck into it for as long as they've made a paycheck. And the gov't sets up pretty strict requirements...it's not just "sit at home and not work". If you're doing that, you're committing fraud.
If they didn't, I would have no problem with that. At no point have I stated that I believe that that government paid unemployment benefits are a right. In fact, what I've said is that I don't begrudge anyone receiving what the government is already offering. Now, that strawman aside, would you care to answer the question asked? You have indicated that you are happy with the government providing health care to poor people because they need it. What about other needs, such as those I spelled out? Should the government be providing those as well?
oh thats funny, because in most peoples checks theres a deduction for fica so is it cool for everyone to collect medicare too?
cheeze leweege, if i dowt answer all of your questions tonight, ill be back tomorrow to satisfy your insatiable appetite for knowledge lets start with the hungry...i believe we have food stamps and wic for the real destitute, although i think that it could be better implemented, its a good start
Damn right I'm insatiable. Ask my wife; she'll tell you. So, the government needs to feed everyone and provide health care for kids, but not house homeless people. OK--got it.
Clearly not doing the trick--ever been downtown? Street corners are full of people that aren't being helped.
yeah, it sucks that a poor kid can be on WIC as a child, live in some pretty crappy parts of some pretty crappy towns, grow up in public schools, work during the summers to save some cash for schooling, join the military, get a college degree, get a life skill, use education benefits for a Master's, pick up a couple of languages on the way, and be in a place where you can contribute to the charity of your choice, the causes of your choice and the quality of life of your choice. Eff that, gimme my check so I can be an adult baby.
Absolutely. If I had no where else to turn, if I had sold all my assets and if charity couldn't step in, I would. There's nothing wrong with the social safety net; I'm in favor of people having a place to turn as a last resort. Where I do have an issue is people who haven't saved, who have assets and who have alternatives looking for the government to pay. See, I answer all your questions directly. Try it sometime.
I'll remove the snark. I think everyone would agree that there's not enough money in gov't to give everyone everything they want. So do you want your tax dollars going to programs that help out people in Paragraph One, or those like Adult Baby who just want to take a check and live the way they want to?
ok so you would take welfare if it was available to you, good to know, kinda hard to blame someone else for doing the same thing no?
im not sure what you mean by this adult baby stuff, but i think wic is one of the best welfare programs out there. almost impossible to sell your wic vouchers for drugs.
