Comments on: 20 Signs That The Culture Of Government Dependence Has Gotten Completely And Totally Out Of Control

By: Yeah Right!

Yeah Right! — Wed, 11 Sep 2013 07:01:00 +0000

WAAAAAAAAAAAAAH! CRY ME A HANFULL! The country is broke and your generation and your narcissism broke our economy! Social Security IS an ENTITLEMENT! and you are NOT entitled to it! You paid into it. It went broke! Too bad. Guess you’ll just have to get a job and work until your 90 just like the rest of us are going to have to do anyway! Freelove generation my @ss!

By: Johnny B. Bad

Johnny B. Bad — Mon, 16 Jul 2012 21:37:38 +0000

Gary2 must be a lazy breeder.

By: Jefferson

Jefferson — Sun, 08 Jan 2012 01:40:29 +0000

Work a few hours hmm..
If you want to just pick up some extra cash
you can either donate plasma $50, medical tests, surveys and perhaps a small gig here and there. to make around $200 bucks (food stamps) a month is just not part of the model

There is no way of just popping in to work for a few hours and then leaving. You need to be hooked into a 40 hr a week job that then dominates your life. What is worse is that getting a decent job requires considerable resources and time. There are a lot of people who just can’t bring themselves to live this way.

We have all seen the homeless person sign “I will work for food.” Great idea. But..
What on Earth would this person do?

We have to figure out how unskilled laborers or people without jobs can earn a few bucks and contribute to Society without Big bro stepping in and magnifying the disaster we already have.

Some sort of spartan slave camp in every town?
either that or we can pay $40,000 a year to hold them in prison when they get hungry enough.

By: Nate

Nate — Thu, 15 Dec 2011 05:04:56 +0000

Brilliant! I live in a beach community where the streets are overwhelmed with people looking for a handout for their morning coffee followed by their mid-morning vodka. I want to do my part to help out the truly needy, but I have become immune to their calls for help, due to the overwhelming numbers of lazy people who feel like the rest of society owes them something. No one owes you a thing, Go earn it! Example: A women at the grocery store in front of me said to the cashier with a smile on her face, “They took away my food stamps, but thanks to Obama I still get my unemployment.” Are you kidding me? This is how a large majority of our society has been trained to think. I believe in America, but i sometimes question whether or not we have past the point of no return. Do the lazy blood suckers out number the hard working God fearing Americans? If we do not see some major reductions in government spending and policy, in the very near future, our nation is in a whole lot of trouble. Rich and Poor. God Bless America! Its now or never time!

By: Ron Ashmore

Ron Ashmore — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 09:38:56 +0000

For Bobo;
Your comments on Dec. 11th are RIGHT ON! Keep giving out money, food stamps and housing allowance for nothing in return and it spreads like a disease. If these people really need assistance due to hard times, then put them to work on jobs that would at least get them away from the 6 pack and the TV. If these people needed the welfare bad enough, they wouldn’t mind putting in a few hours of labor in service to the community. There are plenty of things for them to do that community budgets cannot afford. The work might normally call for volunteers. Why not put these needy people to work showing good faith and their appreciation for the assistance. It also gives them a sense of dignity. If they are capable and don’t want to do their part, then they are going to get real hungry. There will be someone standing in line willing to put in a little effort for the roof over his head and food on the table!
As Bobo says; “Plain and simple!”

By: Ron Ashmore

Ron Ashmore — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 09:00:12 +0000

To Steve:
As eloquent and thorough as you tried to express your views on the pursuit of Life, Liberty and Happiness, you mistakenly painted the Social Security Benefit (as many have) as an entitlement.
In our pursuit, millions of citizens paid into the Social Security program just as one would invest in a 401K or an Annuity upon which you could depend on when you reached retirement age. If that investment in a 40K or Annuity, were stolen or “wrongfully managed” so it wasn’t there when your time for retirement arrived, you should have grounds for a civil suit or possibly recovery due to it being Federally Insured.
Now, the Social Security Program WAS a VERY SOUND and SELF FUNDED SECURITY! Then, President L.B. Johnson saw a problem. He didn’t have the funds he wanted to send a final barrage of troops and munitions to finish off the North Vietnamese.
So, he let his over zealous ego get the best of us and STOLE our Social Security Payroll and funded his final feud in Viet Nam at the cost of 45 to 50,000 Soldiers’ lives. We still lost that useless war!
Our Social Security Fund was never replenished. It started from scratch, but now, it was mixed into the General Budget. At the same time, there was none of the remaining capital left to pay retirees with, so now, Social Security became part of trying to achieve a “Balanced Budget.” Those terms are a JOKE ON DC!
Ever since then, our politicians have tried to estimate when the Social Security system would go “belly-up” with the influx of “Baby Boomers” on the horizon of retirement.
Our Government has continued to be fiscally irresponsible with the taxes being taken from our payroll checks. They have used it to fund everything from welfare programs, natural disasters, and payments to undocumented families with dependent children born on US soil.
Now,Washington has never being held accountable for the original money which had been banked for many years and increased creating a sound and successful retirement fund we know as Social Security.
Our Elected Officials have known for years that failure was eminent. Unfortunately, we have elected some horrible leaders, in recent years.
In all your eloquence, you cannot take away the right to expect proper compensation for our investment. Just like work, you get compensated directly relative to the amount of effort you invest.
With Social Security, we all have invested a percentage of our earned wages for which we were promise “X” amount of compensation based on the years and a percentage of the gross amount we earned.
Just like the pursuit of Life, Liberty, and Happiness; we get out of it in accordance with our effort, or investment.
So please, don’t take that attitude that we are begging for entitlement, like it were a welfare check and food stamps. We rightfully paid for the privilege of having a return on an investment.
We have been wronged, and just like Obama’s rhetoric , you cannot explain it away privilege with a “Silver Tongue” or eloquent dialogue.
Maybe when its your turn to receive Social Security it might behoove you to refuse it and give the money back so you don’t feel like a hypocrite.

By: Ron Ashmore

Ron Ashmore — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 08:03:47 +0000

When are all you “Do-Gooders” going to get off the backs of those of us who have worked all our lives, paid our share of taxes, including those Social Security and Medicare deductions from our checks! We are not the problem! The Social Security and Medicare programs were healthy and self-funding with plenty of reserve in the coffers to continue growing and helping subsidize the retirement of American workers who live long enough to reach retirement age.
President Lyndon B. Johnson, emptied those funds into the “General Fund” with no apology! He bolstered up the number of troops and munitions in Viet Nam with those funds at the cost of 45 to 50 thousand lives of our young men and women.
That money had no oversight committee to account for its demise. There has been no attempt by the Federal Government to replace those funds. All that has been done is to claim that this is an entitlement program, like a welfare check. WHAT an INSULT to the blood and sweat of the American worker.
The Government has continued to bleed the Social Security Program by giving out funds to undocumented workers and other needy programs which had no part in funding the program.
If an honest audit were ever attempted (that’s a joke!) to account for the “Stolen Funds” since the time of President Johnson’s administration, it would amount to Trillion$ of Social Security Dollars that will never reach their rightful recipients! What A GROSS INJUSTICE.
These are criminal acts we only read about that exist in corrupt, third world governments. WRONG!!!!
This is the US Government! “The land of the free and the brave.” A country whereby we are supposed to trust in and rely on a Federal Government with “Checks and Balances” to protect its rightful citizens. A Nation with the Most Powerful Constitution and Bill of Rights a person could have the privilege of living under its entitled liberties and power.
Now we, the “Baby Boomers” are taking the blame for the failing Social Security system because so many of us are “coming of age.”
GET WISE AMERICA! Our Government is corrupt! It stole the money YOU worked your whole life for to subsidize your retirement. The program wasn’t flawed! We got Screwed!

By: Steve

Steve — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 03:31:36 +0000

Obamanomics.

By: Steve

Steve — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 03:31:03 +0000

The government that can give anything to you can do anything to you.

By: kkflash

kkflash — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 20:12:00 +0000

Spoken like a true slacker, Gary2. When are you and those like you going to realize that it is those corporations that are providing the jobs that pay for EVERYTHING? Treat the corporations badly here, and they and their jobs go somewhere else. Then what do you have?

Union demands, and the associated extortion imposed on businesses, are largely responsible for the loss of jobs in this country. They, along with oppressive taxes, excessive regulation, and the workers’ entitlement mentality have got us in the mess we’re in by making business in the US noncompetitive on a global scale. Unions have killed our economy by biting the hand that has been feeding them.