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Originally Posted by kane
In the town I grew up in there was an apartment complex that had about 20 units in it. It was a very low income place. Most, if not all, of the people living there were on some kind of welfare or government assistance. There were a few disabled people people there, but most of them were single moms with kids who lived off the system. It was not a glamorous life by any means. I would imaging it was a struggle, but they had food stamps so they had food, the government paid the rent and the welfare covered the rest of the bills so they survived.
The problem was the mentality of the place. There was one woman who had three kids in a two bedroom apartment. Her oldest daughter got knocked up at 17 and immediately went on welfare. The mother was proud! She actually went around telling people how her daughter "makes" $400 a month. Living on welfare is the family business., This woman even told her daughter she can't get married or she will likely lose her welfare so her boyfriend just moved in with them so now they had five people living in a two bedroom apartment.
They have lived their whole lives with a very low standard of living and don't seem to aspire to anything more. Those types of people will never change. No matter what opportunity you offer them they will find a reason to not be able to do it.
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Of course there are govt leeches.. just like there are corporate leeches that also milk the govt tit.
I'll give you an example..
General Electric. In 2010, GE earned a whopping $14.2 billion in profits - yet did not pay a dime in U.S. corporate taxes. Not only did they not pay any taxes they received $3.2 billion in govt incentives.
Now lets talk big Oil.. When you combine state & federal subsidies this industry rakes in roughly $133.8 billion to $280.8 billion a year of tax payer dollars in subsidies. Now this is of course the entire industry as a whole, but just the three top oil companies made $80 billion profits last year. (that's about 200 million a day)
A interesting article from the NY Times about how these companies get out of paying taxes and essentially leech/abuse the system.. (humm sound familiar?)
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/04/bu...tax.html?_r=3&
I guess it's ok for rich white CEOs & and their cronies to milk the govt tit, but not poor white trash rednecks & black hooligans. As long as you wear a suit and tie while you steal tax payer money it's all good.