As an old retired guy with my own paid for home and my own money, I really don't need a government handout?

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but:

The more I reflect on what has happened in the last few years, things such as Wall Street learning the 'slice and dice" mortgage scam and the no bid contract deals for Haliburton, the more I realize that we are silly not to take everything we can get that is not nailed down.

Our Republican friends have the volume at full blast, screaming that some poor person might get something for nothing but now even dumb me has caught on.

While fortunes fit for a king were being fraudulently made selling and financing houses to people the thieves knew could never pay for them, Bush fixed the tax system so the really big thieves could skate with a lower tax rate than the garbage truck driver.

Now they are getting their thongs in a wad that some single mom who lost her job as the receptionist at the Countrywide Home Loan Office when it closed is going to be able to keep her unemployment benefits while she goes back to school to try to learn to get another job.

So do any of you agree that if we have any sense at all we better take advantage of EVERY dime we can get from government handouts and grab anything else the Republicans didn't steal on their way out.
Of course, we can't get the big bucks like Bank of American and Wells Fargo, but let's at least get some food stamps and a free semester or two of school.

Answer 1

If you were a fish, chances are it would be a carp. You think like a bottom feeder and the problem with your scenario is the vast numbers of free loaders you are proposing to grab a piece of the pie.



I would not call you a problem solver by any means. We already know about the Washington DC parasites who practice "don't do as I do, do as I say", but they aren't only Republicans. Your boy Obama has pissed away more money in three months than Bush during his entire presidency. Just the number of bonuses paid to AIG would make Bill Gates blush.



Those houses you refer to, well the foot print on that little scam is almost exclusively democratic. If you want names, here's a few to swirl around in your blender, Clinton, Emanuel, Dodd, Fwanks, Pelosi, and their ilk.



I too have the good fortune of a home all paid for, but do they ever really let you off the hook ? My annual $7500 property tax bill just came in the mail, due by June 1st, or it's off to paupers prison for me.

But, that's just life under Obama, I guess.

Answer 2

Before Bush I had never taken a dime from any of the social services our country provides...never needed to never wanted to for 25 years. But after 8 years of seeing Bush put Government to work for the Corporations and the 1 percent club, AKA the wealthiest Americans, by giving them tax breaks while raising my small business payroll taxes EVERY year, that followed by watching Bush bail out the bankers and the car makers....well, that really made me feel burned.



The last year of Bush I decided it was time to get some of my money back....Signed up for WIC last year, me and the wife and the kid been sucking down 3 gallons of Gubmint paid for milk a week, eating on the Gubmint paid for cheese, drinking the Gubmint juice and eating the Gubmint cereal...and Gubmint paid for formula for the kid!



And I also dumped the private medical insurance on the kid and got him signed up with the Gubmint CHIP insurance program...saving $1200.00 a year there and the Gubmint insurance is BETTER than the private I had.



I am looking into the Gubmint grants for small business expansion and will take every damn dollar they are willing to give me.



And of course it is nice to own a business that mostly deals in cash transactions... :-)



No offshore accounts yet...but I am looking into that.



You got a STAR for this question!!!!

Answer 3

You forgot the GM factories in 34 countries. And 33 of them forgot to give GM a bail-out. And they got them a lot easier than most people get food stamps.

Answer 4

You sound like a bitter old man that has lost all pride in himself and his country. If you desire to suck from government programs that are paid for by tax payers,go ahead,lower yourself and your standards to those groups that know no other way of life and are worthless Americans that have not and will not contribute to society.

Answer 5

The local con on the radio today was talking about how the solution to our state's budget shortfall was to go after the people on food stamps. Republicans are evil.

Answer 6

If you don't need it then there are plenty of charities that do! I am able to help my grandmother who can't afford her prescriptions, but I'm sure there are many others like her who don't have a grandchild with extra cash.

Answer 7

I notice that because you're providing a balanced, constructive argument, the crazed, over-zealous Republicans aren't storming this question.

Answer 8

Sir, I tip my hat to you.

Answer 9

*claps* Well said.