Pollycy
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I think it would be good or you to spend some time in some poorer neighborhoods. Get there early, 5-6 am and watch how many of these "parasites" are up, standing in the cold, waiting for a bus to go to work. See how many of these "parasites" are working 70+ hours a day. They may not be the best educated, but they are some of the hardest working people you'll ever meet.
Maybe you should consider this question, a business pays an employee minimum wage for 40 hrs a week. That's $15,000 / year. It is simply not possible for a single person to survive on that salary without some form of government assistance. That means it is not possible for ANY single person to fill that position unless they're getting assistance. No one could afford to take the job! So tell me, who's the real beneficiary of a government handout? The person working full time making X and receiving Y government benefits, or the business that would have to pay Y more in salary to fill an unsubsidised position?
I grew up poor, Mithros, at a time when there was no welfare-suck circus in existence provided to anybody by the government.
I took my first job when I was 13 years old, making 50 cents an hour, while my broken family lived in a ****ty one-bedroom apartment without hot water in the kitchen, located on top of a men's clothing store in a small town in Texas. We had to share the only bathroom located down a dark hallway with the drunk who lived in the other ****ty apartment up there. So, cry me a river....
If a person doesn't like the money he or she is making, then they can go get a different job. But nowhere is it written or implied that just because a person doesn't like the situation they're in that other people are responsible for GIVING them anything.
Parasite: Noun
"an organism that lives in or on another organism (its host) and benefits by deriving nutrients at the host's expense."
And it's your position that people who can't even support themselves should be empowered to make vital decisions for the entire United States?! No way in the world does that make sense!
But, it makes perfect sense to a ward-heeling Libocrat politician like Hillary Clinton, who has nothing to offer this nation but the promise of yet more and more and ever more welfare programs. It's been the Democrat Party's bread and butter since the 1930's....
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