One-third of the stewards in the parable of the talents hid his talent and was punished for it. I’ll have to keep that in mind when someone tries to use Scripture to justify more social programs.

the fruits of their labor without having the government STEAL from them to support the 1/3. I did address in my diary this give me mentality and until we stand up and yell STOP it will continue on. I hear Republicans protecting medicare now to get old people to stop the travesty of a Healthcare bill and I think this is CRAZY. I want those programs to be used as a last resort. I want social security to be the welfare program it is supposed to be. I want those who invest and retire with enough to make it until death to NOT get medicare nor medicaid nor social security. Let us on the RIGHT be the voice of reason and make Americans be responsible for themselves.

was all of Obama’s rhetoric during the campaign and after he took office about “the failed theories that helped lead us into this crisis,” with no regards to the fact that strictly conservative policy has never truly been implemented. Meanwhile, shining any sort of light on a number of liberal policies shows just what abject failures they are: Social Security, Medicare/Medicaid, welfare just to name a few. These programs are cornerstones of modern leftist belief and they have done little or nothing to actually solve the problems they were intended to solve, and have left us with incredible debt in the meantime.

I honestly think that a flat/fair tax would seriously help our situation immensely. Not only will it essentially eliminate the IRS, it will ensure that everyone has skin in the game. People may start taking election day seriously when it might have a negative impact on THEIR wallet…

“This has to start at how we define those who society has some obligation to help and though I’m not a Christian, I take a Biblical view of that; I’ll willingly help the widows, orphans, and the lame, blind, and halt. The rest need to fend for themselves. ”

I agree wtih you 200%!!! It’s sickening that able bodied men and their children use public assistance. I think it should be eliminated except for the disabled and children without parents. I think the disability system should be changed too, it’s crazy someone that has paid taxes for 30 years that has ALS can’t get it right away but a huge number of men under 50 are collecting disability in PR.

I can’t stand the way the left uses someone situation and says if it wasn’t for this or that program they wouldn’t have (the benefit). We have no idea what the free market/economy or that person would do if that program wasn’t in place. .

from welfare fraud as the gold standard for living well while doing nothing. In my experience perhaps one in a hundred claims is meritorious. Unfortunately, doctors are all too willing to be complicit in the scams. We used to joke that if you told him that you had State health insurance, a doctor would sign a leaf that blew in through the window for you. How many chicken scratches on an Rx pad I’ve seen avering that Joe or Susie is to be granted leave from work because they are suffering from something or another that can’t be readily diagnosed or proven/disproven. The favorite used to be that they were too stressed to work but our Legislature explicitly excluded stress claims from Workers Comp.

Any large employer could save itself a lot of money by just hiring an investigator to follow its injured and disabled employees around with a video camera. The investigator(s) would find most of them thoroughly enjoying life and showing no signs of injury or disability.

I have 2 members of my family who are riding pimped. They just relocated to AZ, live together, and each acquired Social Security disability. Mind you they are disabled from work but somehow managed to drive themselves cross country, one of them to retire at 55 and the other to attend the University at Phoenix. And I’m the one driving an 18-year-old car to work every day. Their car is a damn sight newer than mine, purchased with taxpayer money.

I know they have medical problems or they couldn’t have won their disability cases. But every time I think about them, I can’t help but feel a little ashamed.

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that “the rich” steal from “the poor”. I thought Willie Sutton drove a stake through the heart of that argument when a woman asked him, “Mr. Sutton, why do you rob banks?” The answer? “Because that’s where the money is.”

The modern day equivalent of Willie’s answer would be “I rob the government because that’s where the money is.”

Back in the early 90s, I was at a grocery store that had a welfare office across the street. This particular town had a large facility that accommodated mentally disabled adults. On that particular day, there was a line of able bodied adults standing in line to collect their welfare check. Sweeping the sidewalks were some of the disabled adults and you could tell they were so damn happy and proud to be working. An amazing picture in my head that I’ll never forget.