Shouldn't you be outside telling at some kids to get off your lawn?


http://www.theatlantic.com/bus...-welfare-queen/282452/

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The American patriot professes love of his country while simultaneously hating 90% of its people.

I think it should be obvious that someone that needs assistance would spend less than someone that does not.

And yet the myth persists of the poor people who live beyond their means and deserve their poverty.

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The American patriot professes love of his country while simultaneously hating 90% of its people.

I'm not saying that anyone deserves poverty. Being poor is more of a state of mind than anything else. When I was making less than $35k per year, I was still happy and optimistic about where life was going. The fact that someone doesn't make a ton of money doesn't automatically make them "poor". If someone is living within their means, happy, and meeting their basic needs, then they aren't poor. If you don't make much money, insist on having the latest-greatest tech gadgets, drive a car you can't afford and have a 10-year loan on, and have 12 maxed out credit cards, then your ass is poor and it is your fault.

It isn't any of my business how anyone spends their money, as long as those people who are living beyond their means promise not to make it my problem 20-30 years down the road when they don't have shit in the bank but still want to retire.

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"The government who robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul," - George Bernard Shaw

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