Using food stamps after winning lottery

Really...This is news worthy? Why not do a story on how people in Johnston county come on this board and change identity's to whine and complain? Now THAT is just about as useful as this. Re-My Friend!

 

Or they could do a story on a caveman who likes to come on this board and whine and complain about what he considers news worthy and useful, and if you disagree with him, he will call you a drama queen or attention whore.

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:cheers:

 

This is the culture that our politicians have created since the New Deal. You are ENTITLED to OTHER PEOPLE'S MONEY! Consider the story of the "adult baby" who collects SSI and threatens to kill himself if YOU stop paying him., http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/sfmoms/detail?entry_id=89385&tsp=1

We have no one to blame but ourselves since we bought into this bovine scat.

 

This reminds me of a quote from a biography of the writer H.L. Mencken:

"By the mid-1930's, thanks to the New Deal, all that self-reliance had changed, prompting Mencken to declare: 'There is no genuine justice in any scheme of feeding and coddling the loafer whose only ponderable energies are devoted wholly to reproduction. Nine-tenths of the rights he bellows for are really privileges and he does nothing to deserve them.' Despite the billions spent on an individual, 'he can be lifted transiently but always slips back again.' Thus, the New Deal had been 'the most stupendous digenetic enterprise ever undertaken by man.... We not only acquired a vast population of morons, we have inculcated all morons, old or young, with the doctrine that the decent and industrious people of the country are bound to support them for all time. The effects of that doctrine are bound to be disastrous soon or late.'

When someone asked, "And what, Mr. Mencken, would you do about the unemployed?" He looked up with a bland expression. "We could start by taking away their vote," he said, deadpan. Mencken was not surprised when the majority disagreed. "There can be nothing even remotely approaching a rational solution of the fundamental national problems until we face them in a realistic spirit," he later reflected, and that was impossible so long as educated Americans remained responsive "to the Roosevelt buncombe."