Like I said, what doe Social Security have to do with welfare? Do you not know what SS's purpose is/was? Do you believe that SS is welfare? It is NOT supposed to be a retirement program. It is a retirement supplement.

I don't know your friend, but it appears that she did not plan for her retirement appropriately. If she is running out of her IRA, perhaps she has a budgeting problem. It is not the duty of the government to supply you with a livelihood. It is not the duty of the government to supply you with health care either. You have a choice in life, either plan for those hard cold winters, or perish with the lazy grasshopper. Sorry, but I am not my brother's keeper. If you can't survive without gov assistance, then perhaps you are too weak.

Who looks like an idiot? Well, it is not my family that's destitute. It is not my family that is dependent on someone else to provide for them. And I didn't get anything from relatives as an adult. I earned it the hard way, just like anyone else CAN.

And before you give the same repetitious mantra of me not being a Christian, let me give you some food for thought. Christians give charity freely, not being forced. Liberals believe they are being Christian-like by giving someone else's wealth away to the unmotivated or sometimes needy, regardless of qualifiers.