What would YOU do if YOU were in charge!!!

[mburbank]

"Pennies off the dollar? It's a bit more than pennies. "

So, you're under the impression that all of your taxes go to welfare? And the military and govt. itself pay for themselves? Pennies off the dollar. That's how much withheld from your paycheck goes to people on welfare. Perhaps less. Welfare is a tiny, tiny fraction of your tax burden.

You know a lot of folks on welfare, personally do you? And you're well versed in patterns of abuse? How do you think those crimes (and they are crimes, and if you get caught, you get pinished) compare to white collar crime? The latest round of corporate crime has impacted the entire US economy and destroyed peoples retirements. You think your tax dollars won't go to solving those problems? And you waste your 'loathing' on people who's crimes give them a life much worse than your own even when they're succsesful?

Thinking they are too good to work? I promise you, open to fraud or not, cheating the welfare system takes more work than Mickey D's. I challenge you to get on welfare. Try it and see how easy to abuse it is. When people tell you about all this 'abuse', do you just believe it, or do you question it?

Welfare abuse is petty, small time crime. Sure, it's bad, and sure it takes money away from people who need it (and I don;t mean you and me, I mean other people who truly need to be on welfare). There are lots worse things out there for you to get worked up over.

Whatever you think of them, I'll tell you this. If someone is living on welfare, there life is worse than yours, they are more troubled than you, and if they are abusing the system rather than working they are more messed up than you are. You are almost certainly happier, you almost certainly live in a better neighborhood, you are safer, you have access to better education, etc, etc, etc. Compassion is free, it doesn't hurt you and it might actually help you. Loathing and disdain never made anyone a better person.