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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Your stereotypical assumptions are rather ridiculous.

Guess who receives tax-funded assistance?

Pretty much everyone. Did you receive a pell grant or financial aid for college? That's basically welfare.

You know who else receives assistance?

People with disabilities---mental and physical. 
(Damn those lazy, greedy people with disabilities!)

You know who else?
The elderly. 
(Damn those greedy little old ladies!)

You know who else? Kids transitioning from the child welfare system.
(Damn those kids!)

I could go on, but why bother?

I encourage you to make friends with someone who works at your local housing authority so you can learn about the critical services they provide to our vulnerable neighbors.

I encourage you to research the meals on wheels programs that fill the gap for vulnerable people who need food.

I can't imagine having the time or energy to waste on obsessing over "who's getting a free ride." It's befuddling. A normal, happy person would be grateful for what he has, and would be similarly grateful to the government and community providers for assisting vulnerable people.

I for one do not want to live in a community where vulnerable people are left to fend for themselves. [/quote]

Sorry, sister, but you cannot lump Meals on Wheels in with the other giveaway programs.  I have been working with Meals on Wheels and most people pay for the food, even those with very low incomes.  As someone else pointed out, if one pays for something it is more worthwhile to the recipient, and we want people to eat the food delivered to them. IMHO, Meals on Wheels is a model for the type of assistance government should provide.  It is amazing to watch a group of people show up, deliver the food, and get the job done in a very low tech way and with virtually no overhead or expense from the band of mostly volunteers who get the work done.

And I do know people who work at the local housing authority and they understand the ripoffs that are perpetrated on the local governments everyday but they are powerless to do anything about it.  For example, go to the Larkspur Apartments off Cleveland Street and Lee Highway in Arlington and you will see numerous taxi cabs with DC registrations parked in the lot. These residents are mostly emigres and exported from DC because the taxi cabs won't pay them enough to get market rate housing.  Look at some of the other subsidized housing in Arlington -- Woodland Hills is prime.  They are filled with first generation emigres who children impoverished them so that they would not have to pay for their care.

So while you dance around and beat your chest to your do gooder song, recognize that all is not what you want it to be.  But then, I suppose, you have never worked in any of the programs you described.  Only tut tut at them from afar.[/quote]

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