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Justi
It does seem unfair that people such as you and I pay more for our own peace of mind, immigrants get handouts. I see this on a daily basis at work.
posted by
avant-garde
on November 13, 2006 at 2:49 AM
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A sad state of affairs
I agree that some require help and also agree that a time must come when these help themselves. If all that were able to work worked, taxes could be lowered benefiting all. Unfortunately, due to human nature "why work when I get for nothing in any case" this will always remain a utopian dream.
posted by
Tanga
on November 12, 2006 at 11:59 PM
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Blanche
I have no problem, and I stated this fact, with those who need to take the services. I help people get meds, I help many get the other needs they have. I do have problems with some families of three generations who are on welfare and have made it a way of life, there are millions of them. There is no dignity in taking when you don't need it. Those who need it should have it. I do have a problem with the illegals who get medical care and I have worked all my life until the last ten years and for 34 years as a small business owner I could not afford medical insurance. Someone can make it across the border and have a baby the next day at no cost to them. You know full well I am not speaking to your situation but to those who are sapping in a great way, taking my paltry tax dollars. You see all that time I paid into the revenue coffers but could get nothing out.
If the war is too costly then ask for money out of the coffers of those who were attacking spots all over the world for a very long time before they finally hit our Twin Towers and the Pentagon. We are paying money into those countries we are fighting in addition to the cost of the war. The issue with Haliburton (don't know about spelling) was not addressed when President Clinton was in the White House, not until President Bush took over. It will be every bit as costly when they bring the war here, believe me, more so in lives. Those who believe it will not come are just not seeing.
Right now the Mayor of N O is treating his own people with less respect than anything our government did. Many are not able to get back their own land. He has wasted, pilfered the monies given him. He is a crooked man.
I have not issue with you, with the new leadership in the Congress, or with the President. I believe the working poor needs to be exempt form State and Federal Income Taxes. I may be wrong about this next statement but I believe in my State your income is taxed down to the first penny. Many have nothing to show for a week of work except the prospect of living under a bridge if they miss a week of work. They don't need free money they need to keep more of what they make.
posted by
Justi
on November 12, 2006 at 3:56 PM
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Justi, I have been on SSDI for 2 years and 8 months now, it wasn't my
choice. I had no alternative, after I came out of the hospital. I may not be able to work full time for quite a while. If I had not had it, I would have been in a really bad way, because my family could not help, and it's too much to ask of them.
I think that you probably know more people than you know who need the help. It's not the social services that are killing our economy, it's the obscene amount of money this war is costing: $4 billion per day, and the likes of Halliburton are making the "welfare mothers' look like pikers when it comes to milking the public treasury.
I'm not proud of having to be on Social Security, but I need it and I'm not going to give it up until I am ready to go back to work full time.
posted by
Blanche.
on November 12, 2006 at 3:04 PM
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Justi, Thank you so much for taking the time to comment.
posted by
Chilitree
on November 12, 2006 at 12:01 PM
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