So this is 51% of our country, how sad

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Registered: 10-02-2008
So this is 51% of our country, how sad
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Tue, 11-11-2008 - 10:16am

A video showing just what we've been saying.

KAREN

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Registered: 08-24-2006
Tue, 11-18-2008 - 10:12pm

Of course I have seen drug dealers and prostitutes. Like I said, I live in Seattle. I work downtown and I walk there every day. However I fail to see how prostitutes and drug dealers are an example of welfare abuse.

If you are concerned about the cost to taxpayers then I would think you would be pushing to legalize drugs and prostitution, since the biggest cost to society from these professions is coming from arresting, trying, and jailing these people.

I know people who get assistance and none of them are IMO abusing it. I know homeless people and none of them get into a car at the end of the day. They sleep on the sidewalks in doorways, or on the buses that run all night to Sea-Tac airport, or in a tent in a church parking lot. Or if they are lucky enough they can pay for a thin mat inside a filthy bug infested "shelter". Some of them are are so mentally ill they can't even begin to fend for themselves.

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Registered: 10-09-2008
Tue, 11-18-2008 - 10:21pm

Benefits are income and dependent based. It doesn't matter if you have a car payment or not. You will not get more because you have a car payment, a cell phone, cable,

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Registered: 10-09-2008
Tue, 11-18-2008 - 10:50pm
Good point.
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Registered: 10-09-2008
Tue, 11-18-2008 - 11:02pm
It would be a big deal if all of these CEO's cut out all there waste too. We may be spending 200 billion less if they had.
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Registered: 10-09-2008
Tue, 11-18-2008 - 11:12pm
I agree with you.
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Registered: 03-26-2003
Wed, 11-19-2008 - 6:46am

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I disagree with you, but I'm pretty sure

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Registered: 04-24-2008
Wed, 11-19-2008 - 7:37am

Another empty, unfounded rationalization.

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Registered: 12-18-2005
Wed, 11-19-2008 - 8:13am

ok, i see your excuses why it wouldn't work, but i think we will just have to dissagree....because i still think it wuold help enough people to make it worth it.


I feel that there are enough people who don't manage the money that they do have in a way that will help them in the long run, this leaves them more dependant on the public for longer...


educational materials could be printed and sent out, or on-line since no one agrees that internet is a luxury, if the public is going to help fund these people who have the internet, might as well take advantage of it.


but we can just dissagree...

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Registered: 07-24-2006
Wed, 11-19-2008 - 8:44am

Ok, I think, I see what you are saying, but that is a case of assuming that all people on welfare get all of those things.

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Registered: 03-26-2003
Wed, 11-19-2008 - 9:45am

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I like to think of them as reasons not excuses.

 


 


I disagree with you, but I'm pretty sure

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