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Originally Posted by Barry-xlovecam
Both of them are bi-polar.
Charlie, the drunk is a former construction tradesman who is too old to work physically -- useless drunk and computer illiterate. Lives in a marginally employed guy's basement -- literally. He only wants to make beer money doing side jobs helping a bi-polar prescription drug addicted early retiree from GM. Charlie gets $260 EBT + Medicaid.
The other, Bill, can program HTML, PHP, MySQL and does do that work for cash on the side along with his trailer concession revenue. He just wants to game the system I guess. $400 disability SSI +Medicare+$260 EBT/mo and what he can earn on the side.
I don't get it either why anyone would want to live that way -- I guess they are just nuts 
I spent over 10 years hiring construction laborers -- they are not exactly creme of the crop society. If you had 5 laborers 4 might show up to work. The 5th guy was too hungover, in jail for child support, yada yada ... |
Yep. I've seen those types a million times too.
So what's the answer for those kind of people? They are useless to society, yet you and I are supposed to pay for everything for them?
I don't know about you, but I'd rather keep my money for my own family and my own future.
I just shake my head in disgust over a lot of people's actions. I was raised to NEVER ask other people for anything. And to earn my own way.
My dad has never gotten anything given to him. He's worked his whole life. Still does at age 76.
My grandfather died a few years ago at age 91. He ran his company up until a stroke stopped him. He never got a damn thing given to him. He started out his adult life with my grandmother by building a cabin with his own hands near Peace River down in Florida. He caught fish and grew crops to feed my grandmother and my dad.
He built himself up and by the time I was born....he was a multi-millionaire who owned thousands of acres of orange groves in Florida.
That's just the way that the older generation of people did things. Necessity was the mother of invention and failure wasn't an option because there was no govt. handout to save your ass if you didn't make it.
I think the "War On Poverty" has had the opposite effect of what it was intended to do. I think it makes people give up on making it on their own. They always know there is some kind of "safety net" for them to get by on.