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Did your parents "afford" you? Most of us weren't pre-planned you know!
Smart people plan ahead. How often do you see smart women with kids they can't afford?
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Originally Posted by MiamiRob
Well if wages kept up with the cost of living we wouldn't have a need for food stamps! Try feeding a family on Minimun wage!
You aren't feeding a family on min wage anywhere in the world and it is stupid to try and do so. You might have to realize that some people make poor decisions in life and that is their right, but neither they nor you can complain about the consequences of those decisions.
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Originally Posted by MiamiRob
That sounds quite "Hitlerish" if you ask me! We can spend trillions on defense but not for our eldery or school kids? Why is healthcare so expensive yet Canada manages to provide?
SS and medicare spend 2X what we spend on the military.
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Originally Posted by shooting4life
Try getting a better job that isn't minimum wage. If you can't find one, then move to an area that has jobs available.
People have no desire to earn more than minimum wage because the government picks up the rest of the tab for the "working poor." I have meet many people who refuse more hours or higher positions because it would affect the subsidies they receive from the government.
That's true, the working poor face an effective tax rate of 95% when their income moves from 20K to about $30K, all due to subsidies being fazed out.
I don't want to pay for feeding, housing or daycaring someone else's children.
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Originally Posted by OICU812
These social welfare programs need to be scaled down, and targeted to the people they are meant to serve.
Then why do you vote Republican? John McCain supported relaxing the restrictions barring legal immigrants from using welfare, food stamps and section 8 housing. While governor, Romney gave cars to welfare recipients along with free insurance and AAA memberships, all paid for by tax payers. W Bush called for a 50% increase in foreign aid.
maybe the private sector should hire more full time employees. maybe less people would need public assistance. and maybe republicans shouldn't have made it their mission to destroy public sector jobs.
No we are more likely to end up like France where 40% of the country support the rest in working age adults. Its get lower as we speak when you take out the government job cuts not being paid for in GDP.in time it will correct itself as we see but it can take decades. Looking at who destroyed the public sector jobs only take looking in mirror by public sector workers. That is what Greeks have realized .besides democrat ats have called for cuts in military budget and the sequester is 50% of that in where cuts are being made.
Why limit it to Canada? It's most of the developed world. So many, too many seem to believe that the U.S. has the best medicine in the world and do so despite ranking #50 in infant mortality, nine spots behind Cuba. The U.S. spends the most to achieve a lower life expectancy compared to other developed nations.
Making things up again. Why do you do this when the figures are so easy to check?
••47% of beneficiaries were children under age 18.
••8% were age 60 or older.
••41% lived in a household with earnings from a job — the so-called "working poor."
••The average household received a monthly benefit of $287.
••36% were white (non-Hispanic), 22% were African American (non-Hispanic) and 10% were Hispanic.
If all of those kids, elderly, and working poor would just die...we could get rid of all those moochers.
Then why do you vote Republican? John McCain supported relaxing the restrictions barring legal immigrants from using welfare, food stamps and section 8 housing. While governor, Romney gave cars to welfare recipients along with free insurance and AAA memberships, all paid for by tax payers. W Bush called for a 50% increase in foreign aid.
You want me to vote democrat??? The dems are the very worst, when it comes to using the power of government to buy votes. Just look at ObamaCare, every college student gets free health care, as if they were all orphans, whose adoptive parents live in poverty, and they desperately need this free health insurance.
John McCain, that's not a good choice to argue with. McCain is a poster child for what is wrong with the GOP, and why we distrust politicians in general. You may as well have used George "Medicare Part D" Bush as the linchpin of your argument.
Then why do you vote Republican? John McCain supported relaxing the restrictions barring legal immigrants from using welfare, food stamps and section 8 housing. While governor, Romney gave cars to welfare recipients along with free insurance and AAA memberships, all paid for by tax payers. W Bush called for a 50% increase in foreign aid.
And neither got elected in the past 4.5 years yet we are where we are today based on a Dem administration.
Well if wages kept up with the cost of living we wouldn't have a need for food stamps! Try feeding a family on Minimun wage!
Why on earth keep having kids you can't afford to feed.
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McCain is a poster child for what is wrong with the GOP, and why we distrust politicians in general. You may as well have used George "Medicare Part D" Bush as the linchpin of your argument.
