entitlement

[Jonathan Lighter]

OT WARNING:

Multimillionaire Joan Rivers was on TV a few weeks back railing that she
doesn't want her tax dollars going to "take care of people with 12 children
that don't even know who the fathers are. ...[G]et a job.... I will not
subsidize someone [who's] got 92 children and is sitting around all day
long, third generation on welfare.”

Slut-mom welfare dynasts with an average of 57 children do have it
made. Everywhere I see their stately piles built on the backs of the rich.


JL

On Wed, Aug 1, 2012 at 11:12 AM, Joel S. Berson <Berson at att.net> wrote:

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> We should force the Tea-Partyists to accept all of the 18th century,
> when the principle was to do good for the "commonwealth", all the
> people collectively, and an action approved by only a "trifling"
> majority was suspect.  And when it was an accepted obligation of the
> Commonwealth to support the needy (although it was also the
> obligation of the latter to do what work they could).
>
> Joel
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> At 8/1/2012 11:00 AM, Jonathan Lighter wrote:
> >Yeah, but the alternative would be to impose confiscatory taxes on
> >gazillionaire job-creators who sacrificed (see other thread) to become
> rich.
> >
> >The Constitution does not require taxpayers to provide poor people with
> >cash for survival, particularly since they'll just spend it on drugs and
> >booze and then get rich off socialist food stamps. (And don't confuse the
> >issue with cherry-picked exceptions!)
> >
> >Remember, the indigent sacrificed *nothing* for their poverty. Thus, at
> the
> >very least, socialistic entitlements send the wrong message to young
> >people, who need to know that the American dream of no taxes and every son
> >of a bitch for himself is *alive and well*!
> >
> >JL
> >
> >
> >
> >On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 9:56 PM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:
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> > > Poster:       Wilson Gray <hwgray at GMAIL.COM>
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> > > On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 12:56 PM, Geoffrey Nunberg
> > > <nunberg at ischool.berkeley.edu> wrote:
> > > > _guaranteed_ to eligible recipients without regard to the cost > in a
> > > given period
> > >
> > > Without any prior warning, the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania  has
> > > announced that an entitlement of $200/mo. for those who have no other
> > > source of income will be cease, as of  the 21st of August, 2012. The
> > > state has suggested that those affected by the loss of this
> > > entitlement may wish to attempt to seek relief at the federal level.
> > >
> > > Fortunately, we conservatives are starving that beast.
> > >
> > > Of course, those affected don't own horses. Hence, those beasts will
> > > not be starving.
> > >
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> > > -Wilson
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> > > to come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
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