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kane · 08-25-2011, 11:08 AM

Just for the record it isn't just the lefties that collect welfare/foodstamps and wait for the government to help them.

I grew up in a small redneck, conservative town. The towns motto might as well have been guns, god and country. It was a logging town. When I was around 12-13 some shit hit the fan and there was a dispute over the legality of logging this one area. That led to all three of the mills scaling way back. They went from working 24/7 to working one shift 5 days per week. Unemployment was through the roof in the town. I would guess that the town had at least a 25% unemployment rate because of that situation. After the first court case there was no end in sight and the mills were told that the this particular piece of land would be held up in court for years. So they had to go out and get other land to log. This would take time and money.

So did the right wingers just pick themselves up, dust themselves off and go get new jobs? Hell no! They drew unemployment and got food stamps. When that ran out many of them went on welfare and got Section 8 housing. They decided they were going to wait until the government fixed the problem with the logging area instead of getting new jobs.

That piece of land never did open back up but over the next few years the mills started buying and opening up new land so some people eventually got their jobs back, but I grew up with a handful of people who grew up on welfare and their family had no intention of ever coming off of it because they felt it was the government's fault that they lost their job. All the while they screamed about the government staying out of their lives and leaving them alone.

08-25-2011, 11:08 AM
kane Too lazy to set a custom title Join Date: Aug 2001 Location: portland, OR Posts: 20,684	Just for the record it isn't just the lefties that collect welfare/foodstamps and wait for the government to help them. I grew up in a small redneck, conservative town. The towns motto might as well have been guns, god and country. It was a logging town. When I was around 12-13 some shit hit the fan and there was a dispute over the legality of logging this one area. That led to all three of the mills scaling way back. They went from working 24/7 to working one shift 5 days per week. Unemployment was through the roof in the town. I would guess that the town had at least a 25% unemployment rate because of that situation. After the first court case there was no end in sight and the mills were told that the this particular piece of land would be held up in court for years. So they had to go out and get other land to log. This would take time and money. So did the right wingers just pick themselves up, dust themselves off and go get new jobs? Hell no! They drew unemployment and got food stamps. When that ran out many of them went on welfare and got Section 8 housing. They decided they were going to wait until the government fixed the problem with the logging area instead of getting new jobs. That piece of land never did open back up but over the next few years the mills started buying and opening up new land so some people eventually got their jobs back, but I grew up with a handful of people who grew up on welfare and their family had no intention of ever coming off of it because they felt it was the government's fault that they lost their job. All the while they screamed about the government staying out of their lives and leaving them alone.