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Originally Posted by buggyone
Rubicon,
I can understand what you are saying but I do not agree with all of it. Lots of people do not have the recommended 6 months of emergency money and that is not due always to a spendthrift lifestyle.
As you know, I volunteer at the Christian Food Pantry in Lady Lake. There are some who get food and are gaming the system, I know. However, there are also some old folks who are getting only a few hundred dollars on Social Security and that goes for rent and utilities. We have to have compassion on those people, don't we? A few bags of groceries and a few dollars of food stamps keeps these people alive.
I am not preaching to you or anyone else. Villagers are known for their compassion towards others.
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Buggyone, re-read what I said its the. Its the reckless and feckless we are talking about. No one would begrudge a person truly in need that made every attempt to care for themselves. However we have some folks who believe feeding at the government trough is a civil right generation after generation. When will it stop...when we all go under because some people refused to fend for themselves
Look at the situation in Rochester New York wherein a school monitor gets bullied and what do we do donate hundreds of thousands of dollars to her so she can retire. Please I begging someone to bully me on the golf course. That same mentality is allowing a number of people to breed just to get more of a handout. I guess the Pilgrims had it wrong when they sailed over here. They should have demanded a stipend for each family member from the King