Obama's first failed appointment

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Originally Posted by classicman

There are infinitely more on the bottom end than the top. It isn't even close. There are many who feel entitled to live off the Gov't as well. welfare has become a way NOT to work and to just keep on receiving while giving ZERO.

NO SHIT it isn't even close. THAT alone should tell you there is something seriously wrong. And that gap keeps getting wider every year.

There is no welfare anymore. Clinton abolished welfare. You can get free or reduced housing, if you qualify, and food stamps, if you qualify, and if you are on disability, you can get a small amount of money to live, and medicaid. If you have kids, you can get more.

I'm not saying some people don't abuse the system, because they do, but I believe it is a much smaller number than people think, and compared to corporate welfare, it is drop in the bucket. IF one is capable of working, they should work, but in the case of being disabled, that depends on jobs being available that will work with a person's limitations. There aren't always jobs available for people who want to work but have limitations due to a disability. In addition, since most of those people are low skilled or uneducated, the jobs available to them pay minimum wage. If you have a kid and all you can make is minimum wage, and you have to pay a babysitter, that takes away all your hard earned money. Who can blame someone in that position for not working? IF lower end jobs paid a living wage, we wouldn't have that problem. In addition, IF we had a real living wage, we wouldn't need so many of those services, except in certain cases of disabilities. Do you really think people want to be poor, and live like that? Because I don't.

All this is well and good, but means nothing as you again haven't answered the questions? Lemme try again.

Who defines needs? who defines abilities?

I don't know who defines them, but as it is now, the people defining them need to be fired, because our system, it ain't working for the vast majority of people out there. Any system that is designed to only work for the few at the top, that system is seriously flawed and needs to be changed.