Entitlement feeling

[iris lily]

...Yes, the poor will always be with us. So will the disabled. So will the young and dependent. The pot of money is not endless.....

Well we can at least agree on that. Stwp 1.

[bae]

Ok, whatever. Let the US just continue to print money it doesn't have. I give up.

[decemberlov]

I have the 100 trillion dollar bill hanging above my desk just as a reminder..

[freein05]

I agree we can not continue spending like we have been doing. We need a balanced approach to balancing the budget. Cuts in spending and additional taxes. Don't put all of the spending cuts on the back of the poor. I would first start cutting defense spending. I sure would not increase it like Romney wants to do. Once the economy turns around that will help to increase revenue. The rich have done very good during these last four years. I see nothing wrong with taking taxes up to the level they were in Clinton's time. Clinton a Democrat was the last president to balance the budget! An increase in taxes to the Clinton level would not affect most of us on this board. Look at Romney he made 25 million dollars in 2011 and his tax rate was 14%. I would guess a lot of the people on this board paid more than 14% of their income in taxes. I did not. I paid less because most of my income comes from qualified dividends and interest. I would not mind paying more in taxes if it went to help people and not the military industrial complex.

Reagen is really the one who started us on the debt gravy train. We won the cold war weapons race under him but ended up with a pile of debt that continued to grow until Clinton. Then Bush 2 hit a home run when it comes to debt.

[BayouGirl]

http://www.snopes.com/politics/satire/jasper.asp

This woman is a perfect example of how entitlement went wrong. Here is an able bodied woman who has worked only ONE year out of her 60 plus years on earth. Working just wasn't for her and she wouldn't wish it on any of her family either. Meanwhile she complains she lives in a slum and click on link to see how nice "slums" are these days. Apparently "slums" have pretty hardwood floors, are recently renovated and spacious and have 60 inch TVs in them.

I worked in the inner city of New Orleans. My students mostly live in the projects. I brought my young son to work with me one day and as we passed the projects, he exclaimed "There must be rich people living there, look at all the fancy cars". I had many parents want me to help them get a "crazy check" (social security disability) for their child. The child would be perfectly healthy but if I could write a letter about their bad behavior then they could go to the doctor and apply for a "crazy check" (their words, not mine).

This is the kind of stuff that gets to me. These people were raising their children to expect something for nothing and that working was for "suckers". You know, suckers like me who pay taxes so they can get all those things they feel entitled to.

[freein05]

We fond a welfare Queen. Thank you BayouGirl.

[ToomuchStuff]

This is the kind of stuff that gets to me.

This is the kind of stuff that gets to most everyone. SCUM and I know several people who feel those like this and other criminals (this is stealing in a lot of people views) should be shot in the street and left out in the sun as an example.


Now, how many people here, haven't been poor?



Off the top of my head, I only know of three people who have/had trust funds. And only one for sure, can I say had $1,000,000 in it before his first birthday. Most people have been broke/poor. You turn 18 and you can have no home, if your smart, you have a little money (but it isn't much), transportation, etc. If your really lucky, you have help with school, or are in good enough shape, that the military is an option. (neither in my case)
You get what you get, no two ways about it. What you do with it, with a mix of luck (both self made and not) and skills/connections, etc., is up to you.

[ApatheticNoMore]

Meanwhile she complains she lives in a slum and click on link to see how nice "slums" are these days. Apparently "slums" have pretty hardwood floors, are recently renovated and spacious and have 60 inch TVs in them

The t.v. is huge and if all she is complaining about is the scratches on the floor haha, but I once had hardwood floors, parts of the wood was slowly rotting away from the building having major leakage problems, they had termite damage, they grew a mushroom out of the wood itself (a sign of rotting wood if anything) EVERY winter, so every winter this large mushroom would grow out of my floor. I researched mushrooms that grow out of rotting wood to learn about my new companion. Yea, suffice to say I am not impressed by the luxery of hardwood to put it mildly! I prefer fake stuff. It wasn't a slum, I wasn't poor, it was just a bad poorly maintained apartment (could probably fairly call the landlord a slumlord though for not doing the maintenance on that dump!).

[ctg492]

BaYouGirl:"crazy check" (social security disability) for their child. The child would be perfectly healthy but if I could write a letter about their bad behavior then they could go to the doctor and apply for a "crazy check" (their words, not mine).
OMG this family I posted about gets this too, I know these kids and there is nothing that I can see is an issue when we are all together at grandmas. I put the pieces together (took me a while) the mom im me last year saying they got the "money" for the kids. I had no idea what that was till lately. The kids have ADD I guess they got classified as. Yet the sports they play 4 nights a week eats up the money. They were hoping to get the oldest to "free" college.The paper work was being filled out, since if the child is on assistance for 2 years there is a possibilty for this. WT*.

PS the folks have MBAs

[Zoebird]

I don't think NZ spends much on war machines at all. Prove me wrong. How much of the GNP goes there?

In NZ, I have no idea. In the US, the majority.

Since I'm still filing taxes (though currently I don't have any income to be taxed or that is at the taxable level yet) and voting there, I still have a 'stake' in what is going on in the US. And that's what I'm talking about.

After all, I was born and raised in the US, paid US taxes for the 10 years that I lived/worked post graduation (and some during school when I worked -- btu much less), and put into social security, and so on. So, I am "vested" even if . . . Romney was right and people just took their businesses off shore because it looked more attractive.