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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]NP here. I've read a lot of these "welfare' posts, and I find the responses to be ridiculous.

Common Response #1: How do you know this about them? Are you a stalker/frenemy?

Um, unless you live in a cave, you probably know at least one family like this. You probably know them because your kids is friends w/ their kid, or they are maybe even in your own family, or they are friends of a family member.

I've met many, many irresponsible welfare families because I grew up in a town where the median income was around 26K, and because my own father was a welfare bum.

Common Response #2: Don't be judgmental.

That's funny, because as someone else pointed out, the majority of these posters are EXTREMELY judgmental about the poor student who loans 80K to go to school ("WTF were you thinking?"), or the middle-class family who is supporting elderly parents ("time to cut them off and focus on your OWN family, idiot,"), and a whole host of other things. Apparently welfare (something THE PUBLIC pays for) = the only thing you can't be judgmental about, but everything else is fair game.

Common Response #3: MYOB.

This makes no sense, since taxpayers pay for welfare, and it IS hurting us financially (esp. in a recession, when there are people who are genuinely desperate, and the government is short on funding for programs that our society desperately needs). If we had lots of money left over, then fine, it'd be stingy to get on these people's cases. But we don't. The economy sucks, the federal AND local governments are out of money, and when things are like this, you do kind of have to question where every cent is spent.

Just my $.02,

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