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My parents taught their five children that if you wanted something, you had to earn the money so that when you were able to purchase it, it would be yours and no one could take it away from you. They said that there were no free rides in life and that the only thing that made you a good person, a real person, and a benefit to your community was your work ethic. These lessons have been remembered and practiced throughout our lives and we have appreciated that working makes you feel good about yourself, but lately, it has made many of our era angry at those who complain that what people give you isn’t good enough. Governor Deval Patrick gives people in his state cars to get them to work, because they cannot take public transportation, but if they lose those jobs for which the cars were needed, they get to keep the cars. Supposedly this frees up $6000 from the welfare payments made to these families, and though they keep the cars, they lose the other benefits such as insurance, and up keep. Twenty percent of the car recipients end up back on welfare. You can read the full story on the Boston Herald web site.

There are many problems with the “give-me” system due to the fact that there are many people who would rather receive than give. It’s human nature to want to help those who cannot help themselves, but it is not human nature to want to help those who will not help themselves. The give-me attitude is over-worked and most Americans working to pay bills just do not have the funds to give to those that cannot put down the crack pipe and go find a job. Social Security is running dry due to the give-me system, unemployment is a wait-and-see operation for most Americans, and food stamps…well, if you want food stamps, you will have to swim the Rio Grande before applying. Medicaid is a sump hole where only the children of people unwilling to work will get benefits, and the elderly have been pushed to the back burner with restrictions on their income and medical care so many times that it appears as though the government would like to tell them to take a long walk on a short pier.

If you’ve worked for a living all your life and suddenly find yourself unemployed, you’re likely to find that you’re ineligible for government aid because you have never been on their role-call before. As a matter of fact, working to support yourself was your first mistake in the great nation where no man/woman/child is left behind. If you become terminally ill, you are made to prove that you have cancer or whatever, which takes 6-months and many people in this position die before ever collecting any social security benefits. You will die; however, with a clear conscience knowing that all that money you paid in, in your lifetime, went to support someone who was too lazy to work. These poor defenseless people that you work to care for every day will not only, not be grateful, they will complain that what they have been given was insufficient, that they have a right to live as well as you have lived, and that it is your fault that they cannot work to earn money to support themselves. That’s right; you’re to blame for them not attempting to learn while they had the opportunity. You’re responsible for their drug habit, you’re responsible for them getting pregnant, and you’re responsible because they say so, and if they cannot prove it, they will get a legal document in hand to do so for them. Best of all, and the last thing to be remembered, is that you did all this by electing officials who came up with the laws that protect people from having to work for a living. Thank your congressman/woman, your local representative, and your president for having helped you to aid another human being in his pursuit to lie around and do nothing. There is a free ride, in life, but you cannot receive it if you chose to work, rather than to complain about everything and everyone.

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