Occupy Wall Street Fail
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Michigan is close enough to the Can/US border that this flake can tune into the Canadian example.... Sounds to me like he has learned well.
"I am entitled to my entitlements"
It wasn't that many years ago that people took pride in themselves and worked hard such that they wouldn't have to be in that position.
Most of the people who actually need food stamps probably are embarrassed.
And then there is this jerk off and the moronic bureaucracy that qualified him.
And he's not alone, I can remember hearing about some in-law of one of my in-laws who pulled in around $70k per year. Guess where he "bragged" about doing his grocery shopping?
Yup, I'd probably take the long gone that I don't have (nudge nudge wink wink) and get a deer.
I think he was long passed on when I first heard about it, I think he was the father of the guy a cousin married or something like that.But there really are people who, on at least some occassion, can do with a bit of help. The two guys mentioned are probably extreme examples but there is a lot of abuses that go on, no doubt. To me, it's shameful to allow the abusers to define the 'system', for lack of a better term.
On some level we do need to at least try to look out for one another. Every human being needs some kind of help, in some way, shape or form at some point in their lives. It may be a humbling experience, but it shouldn't be a humiliating one.
You would have been just a little cub at the time. I'd have hoped that the big cat in you would have torn him a new one had you had the killer instincts that are finely honed today. (hehe)
Everyone needs some help at one time or another, and a hand-up can go along way to getting someone back on track.
Your comment that really hits home is the idea that the abusers define the system... I never really looked at it that way, but you are dead on.
Kudos!
I still can't get my head around the 'inlaw' example that you mentioned.. Taking some form of perverse pride in needlessly consuming resources that could have helped another.
I would imagine that most (if not all) experience feelings of humility when having to resort to these steps.. What is really sad is when ambivalence sets in and the person no longer cares - you have to wonder if they have given-up.
LOL, like I just sit at home sharpening my claws. I've got some "killer instinct", maybe, but honestly you were more bang on before, I'm mostly all about the purring.
Thank you.
Frankly, I tend to look at many issues in the same way.
I was shocked when I first heard about it too. But that's greed right? Mixed with pride. There is a reason why they are "sins". (so to speak)
I think a lot of people do give up. Apathy sets in. And once hope is lost, what else is there?
It is sad. In fact, it's heartbreaking. Everyone has worth, or at least the capacity for it.
If you are genuinely in need through no fault of your own, I can't see being embarrassed although I can understand it. To allay any guilty feelings I would just donate a few hours at the food bank. "What goes around comes around".
I can go better than that I worked with this one A$$hole (in his 50s at the time) who when he travelled to the U.S. would buy Cdn. travellers cheques and cash them down there in stores where young kids were running the till. At that time $100 Cdn was worth about $70 U.S. and if the kids cashed it as U.S. he would just take the money and leave. But why would a guy brag about it? Anyway he died a few years ago while still fairly young, so maybe the Big Guy was watching him!
That would be stupid, Petros and your Goose might be cooked and you eating it in jail on Xmas Day. :lol:
And these people on food stamps are the same ones that can barely fit through the Super Market double doors.
America's poor are the fattest in the whole world. In fact America's poor are more obese than America's wealthy!
I think you've hit on the quality vrs quantity thing. Quality can
cost you, and quantity can satisfy hunger in those that have
really been hungery. Processed & frozen can be stockpiled,
while fresh has to be consumed in relatively short order...
If that is true it is just as likely contributed to sitting on their ass all day as much as over eating! :lol: