Who ain't on the dole? 

The article mentions the French muslim neighborhoods.  Recall, these are the neighborhoods where locals flip over cars, burn things, etc. - every few years.

But the locals want for nothing.  Every basic need is met.  Housing, an allowance, food, education through Ph.D. if you have the grades, healthcare.  Every basic need. 

Why,then, do they riot?  Two reasons:

1. People without jobs are people without hope.

2. Jihad.  When all else fails - and even when it doesn't - blame the infidels. 

They are supposed refugees.  Yet, they go back to the fucking place they are "running from" to visit...

Yeah, we need comprehensive immigration reform like we need anal rape. 

Fucking joke.

Posted by: Tux the Penguin at April 30, 2013 11:54 AM (8y9MW)

Bullocks.

I'd gladly take $10/year for the low low price of NO WORK WHATSOEVER.

Also consider in aggregate what this means for the country as a whole (how many on food stamps again?)

And this is just welfare as I'm reading it, so it may not include other non "welfare" things they got (like tuition payments.)

The welfare state may put food in one's mouth, but it does so at the expense at stripping a sense of accomplishment, belonging, and meaning from the recipient. And that void will be filled by something else. While people do not require meaning, as a strict biological matter, as they require food, water, air, and shelter, they do crave it-- it's probably on the level, as far as centrality to one's being, as sex.

I wish I could remember who wrote it originally, but someone wiser than  me once laid out the psychological advantages to work, how it replaced  the Overwhelming Urge which would normally be  directed  at  others in the form of violence, as we have seen.

Capitalism and work provide a healthy outlet for energy while at the same time providing benefits for oneself,  one's family,   and others (even if inadvertently or indirectly).  This  aspect, for some unexplained  reason, is never  spoken about much.

Perhaps it should be.

The Herald notes, and AllahPundit underlines, that even Democrats are vowing to be in the forefront of the inquiry to find out how much money went into terrorist pockets.

Sound and fury signifying nothing.

They'll playact the niceties and platitudes, but nothing will come of it.  At least not   from   Democrats, and probably not from the Republicans.

runningrn, it occurs to me that there were probably several uber liberal lawyers from all over the country just drooling at the chance to represent him. When, in fact, there should have been 0 lawyers that wanted to represent him and the one he finally got should have been some poor Boston public defender who drew the short straw.

Not attention whore attorneys who get their rocks off (or in her case the equivalent) by getting evil men lesser sentences for their crimes.

The older brother was driving a Mercedes.  Its  obvious  he   had backers.   

The emptiness that welfare creates in its recipients dovestails nicely with yesterday's about hatred and villication being the Dems' main get-out-the-vote engine.

If your life has no meaning and you have no accomplishments, hatred can fill that void. It explains why your average Obama voter hates the people whose taxes refill their EBT card. It explains why Obama, who coasted through life thanks to what he looked like, hates the country that was dumb enough to twice elect him.

I  work so I don't spend money.

If you don't work, you soon find out  that filling that down time costs money. 

In fact, there's a good argument that "stifling regulation + media antagonism" is the universal recipe for a working class with an angry, oppositional culture. The social logic is simple: Cultural differences make it easy for those outside of, for example, Jesus flyover land to discriminate against those inside, and easy for those inside to resent the mainstream culture around them.

For many people, work does give their lives meaning. Few like work, but most understand the accomplishment of standing on one's own feet and providing for oneself (and one's family).

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This is very true. Welfare programs for the able-bodied are patronizing. They serve only to make the giver feel superior. The recipient knows this and grows more resentful of the very giver of the free stuff; like an absentee father who gives his kid every material gift, but not his time, love or affection.

Posted by: BlueStateRebel at April 30, 2013 12:05 PM (7ObY1)

That goes for at least 1/3 of the    criminals who go to prison every year, I swear.    If    only    a small fraction of them    would   decide      to use those cunning little brains of theirs to do something GOOD, instead of something BAD.   

The older brother was driving a Mercedes.Its obvious he had backers

Not so fast, slick!  There are tons of people who do not work, living in subsidized housing on food stamps and Medicaid that have much nicer rides than me!  And tires...with awesome rims...and popping sound systems...and hydraulics to make their cars go up and down...Escalades, Mercedes, Beemers, you name it. 

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at April 30, 2013 12:00 PM (piMMO

$1k/month would more than plug the budget holes created by my current predicament.  So while not stunning it is still a substantial sum of money.

I'd also argue it's only not stunning because we've become desensitized to the notion of high welfare payouts.

Basic law of Human Nature... if you want 'More' of somthing?  Reward it...

If you want 'Less' of somthing... punish it...

Our Government now Rewards the weak and the indigent... or those who scam the system into thinking they are weak...

While the successful worker pays higher taxes.

/some assembly required...

The welfare state may put food in one's mouth, but it does so at the expense at stripping a sense of accomplishment, belonging, and meaning from the recipient. And that void will be filled by something else. While people do not require meaning, as a strict biological matter, as they require food, water, air, and shelter, they do crave it-- it's probably on the level, as far as centrality to one's being, as sex.

Amen to that, Ace.  And what still amazes me is that it took less than 50 years for cultural  attitudes to degrade  from "oh, God, I wish we weren't so poor that we have to use food stamps.  I hope nobody I know sees me," to EBT cards and Obamapho! Lady.

He is being represented by the Federal Public Defender out of Boston. Judy Clark has been contracted out to be second chair. Capital cases are required to have two attys. He's going to have two older women defending him, so expect the puppy dog defense. Then again, I be they hammer him to plead for a no death sentence. Personally, I would prefer he be sentenced to death. He's not going to end up in ADMAX forever if at all.

Why not 2 Boston public defenders?  Why do we have to pony up the cash for what's going to be a very expensive defense? 

I would be quite happy if he gets sentenced to supermax and is left with the resident general population for a week or two, however long it takes for a little prison justice to naturally occur. 

Gosnell is gonna walk. "If the kid don't chirp, he ain't a perp." The late Johnnie Cochran.

Posted by: Fourth Virginia at April 30, 2013 11:59 AM (wbmaj)

Gosnell's gonna walk because race uber alles.

Posted by: Fourth Virginia at April 30, 2013 12:10 PM (wbmaj)

He is getting free housing and meals...

at GITMO.

I compared my grocery purchases to the woman in front of me using her EBT card yesterday. My cart had only store brands. Hers had only name brands. My cart had staples. Hers had convenience foods. My cart had one pound of ground beef. Hers had five pounds of T-bone steak.

Obviously this means I'm raysis

Yes, and even worse, you are guilty of class envy...

Not to be a downer, but that is $100,000 over ten years. Or about $10,000 a year. Not quite as stunning of a headline when you look at it that way.

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You can also look at it as they were being subsidized for an entire decade. That's a hell of a long time to be a taker.

I was buying store brand cranberry juice at buy-one-get-one. In the line I noticed the, ahem, dusky woman behind me had one of the name brand juices in her cart. I said, you know, they have the store brand at BOGO. She flashed her EBT card at me and said, and I quote, "Dat means nuffin to me."

Nice!  Sucking off the gubamint teat means never having to buy generic or off brand.  It's nice to see that she's truly grateful for that too. 

Posted by: Biblio at April 30, 2013 12:06 PM (7o8VY)

The left perceives "self-sufficiency" as something very different from the right's view.    To the right, self-sufficiency means, correctly, that a person is able to support themselves and their family    without needing to depend on the government for any assistance.  If the government disappeared tomorrow, a self-sufficient individual wouldn't have to worry about what to do when their welfare check didn't arrive that month.   They might have to worry about the complete breakdown of   law and order as the Free Shit Army takes to the street   in petulant rage, but that's completely beside the point.

The LEFT perceives "self-sufficiency" as being able to do things you want to do because the government has already     taken care of    the necessities.     You don't need to work because the government gives you a welfare check,  and money for food, and a free    phone,   and subsidized    loans for college,    and cheap or free housing, and extra money for every kid you pop out like a Pez dispenser,     and more money if you're   "disabled," and   "free" healthcare and    everything.    You don't have to worry about    providing    any of THOSE things   for yourself or your family.       You're free to spend your days living out your dream of being a photographer, or an artist, or a welfare cheat grifter fraud, without having to worry about where your next meal comes from.   THAT'S the left's idea of "self sufficient."  

Not to be a downer, but that is $100,000 over ten years. Or about $10,000 a year. Not quite as stunning of a headline when you look at it that way.

It's 100k tax free.  There's that little perk, too!

10,000 a year is not a huge figure

but why were they receiving it for 10 TEN years

$100k over 10 years?

Come on! ThatÂ’s only $10k per year.

Who hasnÂ’t taken $10k per year worth of free shit from a country while bitching about how much said country sucks before eventually blowing up bombs at a sporting event to protest said countryÂ’s evil, amirite?

Posted by: runningrn at April 30, 2013 12:14 PM (MZrpY)

I know this is true, Runningrn. I have seen it myself.

Uh, guys, if I won the lottery I would not snub it because it isn't real work.

First- that's not an entitlement.  You were not entitled to that money, you purchased a winning ticket (by near-random chance).

Second- there is lots of anecdotal evidence (bordering on enough to become data) that people who win the lottery and then quit working wind up miserable.  There's a show dedicated to it: "The Lottery Ruined My Life."  Invariably, the people I've seen on it stopped doing anything productive to "follow [their] dream..." and then slipped into depression and a variety of other health problems (mental and physical).

Mankind was made to work.  There's just a part of us that takes satisfaction in making things and being able to take pride in our work.

Posted by: BlueStateRebel at April 30, 2013 12:13 PM (7ObY1)

I would have said, "As a taxpayer, I have to buy this so you can buy that.  Yeah, this will end well."

And the cry from the liberals will be "but you're an evil republican who doesn't want to feed people!! You want people to starve!"

Otoh, if starving terrorists means fewer terrorists, that would be a plus.

The LEFT perceives "self-sufficiency" as being able to do things you want to do because the government has already taken care of the necessities

Yes, it's why artists will now be able to paint and sculpt at will without ever having to worry about the mundane concerns of life.  Consider all yourselves patrons of the arts!

Posted by: BlueStateRebel at April 30, 2013 12:13 PM (7ObY1)

Milton Friedman's "The 4 ways you spend money" needs to be mandatory watching for everyone. At least once a year.  Clearly this is "spending someone else's money on yourself."

(Which to me still is stupid as shit.  I'd still want to maximize my utilization of it especially because I'm utilizing it for necessities.  Sure if my boss takes me out to dinner I'm going to spend like stupid because that's a treat.  Grocery shopping even with someone else's money is different for me at least.)

Not so fast, slick! There are tons of people who do not work, living in subsidized housing on food stamps and Medicaid that have much nicer rides than me! And tires...with awesome rims...and popping sound systems...and hydraulics to make their cars go up and down...Escalades, Mercedes, Beemers, you name it.

While my little 22y/o truck sits out front because I can't yet afford a new  $250   brain for it.

I wonder how many "alienated" welfare youths there are in Dearbornistan.

-- That would be all of them

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit at April 30, 2013 12:15 PM (4df7R)

MWR, have I told you lately that I love you?

Oh and on that winning the lottery business, check out how many people have been murdered by friends/relatives once the "lucky" one wins the lottery.

There was one in Chicago last year, man was killed by cyanide.  They are still trying to figure out which relative did it.

There was one down in Florida recently, killed by his girlfriend.

Good times.

Gee, I just drove through west Philadelphia.  There were certainly a lot of able bodied young males congregating on street corners-in fron of liquor stores. 

I would say the $100k is complete and utter bull shit. North of a $1m is more in the ball park.

I agree!  I read in the Boston Herald this a.m. that there are 500 pages of welfare/benefits records on this family.  Apparently, they've been heavily redacted.  Soo-prise!

Posted by: fastfreefall at April 30, 2013 12:18 PM (MPEti)

This is the micro version, there is also a macro version.

Gee, I just drove through west Philadelphia. There were certainly a lot of able bodied young males congregating on street corners-in fron of liquor stores.

That's a lot of Fresh Princes right there!

Can you use an EBT card to buy a pressure cooker?

I wouldn't be surprised.

Giving shit freely to our enemies? that's it, we're truly, for sure fucked.

Cough, cough, F-16's to the Egyptian Brotherhood...cough...aid to Pakistan....cough, cough....Billions of dollars to the Palestinians...ahem...cough...

Sounds suspiciously like e pluribus unum. We con't do that shit no more. Now it's all diversity.

Yeah, no more melting pot. Now it's the tossed salad.

#145 I stopped to ask directions. And one of the able bodied youg males pointed a gun at me. I'm sure it wass a toy, but I drove off just the same. Maybe I'll give Gosnell a ride home when he walks.

There are some neighborhoods in Philly you should never be in, let alone stop and ask directions.  You just want to get out of there asap and you certainly don't want them to know that you are lost and not from there!  Yikes!

110not working also prevents assimilation

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We promise 100% employment

I'm sticking with "They do it because they think it's their right, because it works, and because 'we' want them to do it" as my root causes.

I have a long list of shit I don't like that I'd probably get some satisfaction from pretending is the Real Problem Here. Increases in Islamic terrorism in the West and reductions in places where people are lawfully allowed to smoke cigarettes are very strongly temporally and geographically correlated, for example.

But.

Up here, it's common to call Canadians "Norks." Short for Nordiques.

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shouldn't that be Norques?

I saw a special on food stamps.  Why is it that it seems most trailer park trash is made up of a wife weighing in about 300 and the husband goes about a buck twenty five?

These losers were complaining that their disability check was late coming in the mail and they were about out of food.  The show followed them to the store where they purchased all of the prepared  frozen foods while they continued to bitch on how the food stamps were not  a sufficient amount.

I'd trade them for 10 illegal mexican aliens.  

Not to be a downer, but that is $100,000 over ten years. Or about $10,000 a year.

IIRC, they weren't on the dole continuously for all that time, which could bump up the average quite a bit.

Posted by: zsasz at April 30, 2013 12:21 PM (MMC8r)

You'd think so, wouldn't you? But just TRY to get the gubmint to give up   that info, even in aggregate.   Never gonna happen.

Posted by: maddogg at April 30, 2013 12:26 PM (OlN4e)

Barky always likes to go on about how our Robust safety net allows people to take risks they otherwise wouldn't take.

But that's really not true.  Yeah every so often you'll find some crazy who quit his job and used the time to invite the bread slicer, but for the most part the safety net encourages sloth, not risk.

Enlightened self interest encourages risk.

Can you use an EBT card to buy a pressure cooker?

Even if you can't,  plenty of people sell their food stamps  and other benefits for cash,   which they use for whatever the hell they want. 

Yeah every so often you'll find some crazy who quit his job and used the time to invite the bread slicer, but for the most part the safety net encourages sloth, not risk.

Even then, it's not the guy who quits his job to invent a new bread slicer who gets it patented and sells it.  It's the guy who built it in his garage in precious hours after work and on the weekends.  In general, anyway.

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit at April 30, 2013 12:29 PM (4df7R)

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We must protect their unearned sense of self esteem. for the children...

Posted by: Matt in Maine at April 30, 2013 12:20 PM (wOdJE)

Yeah, right. According to one of Mitt's sons in an interview (I forget which son), Mitt didn't really want to run for President but felt he would be more likely to beat Obama than any of the other prospects. That was a valid assessment given the weakness of the primary field, but doesn't exactly make for an inspired campaign.

Lincoln called presidential ambition the 'worm in the belly' that kept gnawing away at him. Romney didn't have it, that inner drive, that fire. And because he didn't, he didn't completely commit, go all in. If you ask me, that's why he lost, and I feel the fool for pouring money I couldn't afford into the campaign of a man who didn't want the job in the first place.

EVERY FUCKING PIECE OF SHIT THAT LIVES OFF OF WELFARE SHOULD BE CUT THE FUCK OFF.  MORE THAN 2 YEARS, FUCK YOU GO HUNGRY.  WE'LL FEED YOUR KIDS BUT YOU WANT THE GOVERNMENT CHEESE YOU GET STERILIZED AFTER 2 YEARS AND LOSE THE RIGHT TO VOTE.

FUCKING PERIOD.

My mother scraped and scrimped for years on her own raising her own kids with a POS job that paid nothing.  At times we needed help, but not for long.

WE NEED TO CALL THESE FUCKERS OUT AS THEY ARE LITERALLY DRAINING THE SYSTEM.

Welfare is shameful.  Section 8 is shameful.  Food stamps are shameful.  WHERE THE FUCK IS THE SHAME.  You are a fucking slave if you live off of govt benefits.  Is there no pride?  Is there no shame? 

And they are trying to make this shit "acceptable" as if it's a normal way to live.  It's the most insidious, dangerous fucking thing they are doing.

Sorry, rant off.

The stunning thing for me was that both of them were in the USA legally.

That doesn't stun me at all, really.  I mean, I wouldn't be surprised if they'd overstayed a visa either, but muslim terrorists do seem to at least go through the motions of getting here legally, first- even if they don't then make sure they're staying here legally.

Posted by: Liberal Democrats at April 30, 2013 12:28 PM (GGCsk)

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A big gulp? NIMBY you fake liberal.

Which is the logic they'll use to publicize everyone's medical records

Speaking of which, I would love to know what FFFLOTUS's BMI is.  That effing fat fauxny just works out her arms.  The rest of her body is a big, fat, hawt mess.  I know that my BMI is waaay lower than hers.  She can start lecturing me about diet and exercise the minute hers is less than mine.  (Which will be never!)

Posted by: jeannebodine at April 30, 2013 12:31 PM (LBBS3)

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UK   (and Canada) also provide welfare benefits to multiple spouses, so there is an advantage to a    polygamous   muslim to live on the dole there.

For those dismissing $100k as "not much," think about what else that money could have been used for, as in "people or projects that would have been positive contributors to society."

Also, think of how many people have received this amount thanks to the largess of we the taxpayers!!!!  So multiply that number by the ranks of the FSA (Free Shit Army).

I sure would like a sunset on welfare.. tell 'em all... you've got 4 years to get your life together. After that, no more payments above $100 / month and no rent assistance above $200... and those will be time-limited not to exceed 2 years. Heh.... I know.... no way ever... but I dream..

Do this after you roll back   regulations and embark on a national mission to reinvigorate   the economy so's people can have a  viable option in the  market.

We have the world's largest consumer market, yet we don't even   begin to have the policies in place at the national   level   that would take advantage of it.  We could be making our own products, but we aren't, in large  part because of all the taxes,  rules, and regulations being forced upon us against our will  by the Feds.

Posted by: Yip at April 30, 2013 12:24 PM (/jHWN)

-- What news on oil?

Caustic:

Because the left doesn't want to help the poor.  Indeed, it's the opposite.  They want to CREATE more poor...

Posted by: Caustic at April 30, 2013 12:36 PM (/b8+5)

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It is protection money  with the added benefit   of votes bought with other    peoples' money.

#229  You down wit' EBT?  Yeah, you know me. 

Posted by: HeideRadieschen Mulder at April 30, 2013 12:38 PM (/kI1Q)

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With your permission, I am going to try and rent a billboard and put that on it.

Well done.

We're the first society in history where the "privileged" class works their ass off so the "under" class can have lives of leisure.

Posted by: HeideRadieschen Mulder at April 30, 2013 12:38 PM (/kI1Q)

This needs to be a fucking headline, in red 200pt font, blazing skull (with Blago-hair), the ewok signal and a hobo with a crossbow bolt through his face and a longbow arrow through his chest.

Best.  Summation.  Ever.  Cut.  Jib.  Newsletter.

MEANWHILE IN ENGLANG:

The Sun secretly filmed him over three meetings also saying leaders such as David Cameron and Barack Obama should be KILLED, grinning as he branded the Queen “ugly” and predicting a “tsunami” of Islamic immigrants would sweep Europe.

Father-of-four Choudary, who has praised terrorist outrages, pockets more than £25,000 a year in benefits — £8,000 more than the take-home pay of some soldiers fighting the Taliban in Afghanistan.

He laughed as he told supporters:

“You find people are busy working the whole of their life. They wake up at 7 o’clock. They go to work at 9 o’clock. They work for eight, nine hours a day. They come home at 7 o’clock, watch EastEnders, sleep, and they do that for 40 years of their life. That is called slavery.

"And at the end of their life they realise their pension isnÂ’t going to pay out anything, the mortgage isnÂ’t going to pay out anything.

"Basically they are going to lose everything, commit suicide. What kind of a life is that, honestly. That is the life of kuffar (non-believer).”

Former lawyer Choudary — twice banned from running organisations under the Terrorism Act — said some revered Islamic figures had only ever worked one or two days a year, adding: “The rest of the year they were busy with jihad (holy war) and things like that.”

He went on: “People will say, ‘Ah, but you are not working’.

“But the normal situation is for you to take money from the kuffar.

“So we take Jihad Seeker’s Allowance. You need to get support.”

Figures obtained by The Sun in 2010 showed the extremist cleric received £15,600 a year in housing benefit to keep him in a £320,000 house in Leytonstone, East London.

He also got £1,820 council tax allowance, £5,200 income support and £3,120 child benefits — equivalent to a taxed salary of £32,500...

Truth doesn't work.

Depends on the job.  Also on the delivery.  I once looked a prospective employer full in the face and answered that question with, "Because my lotto ticket didn't win last night."

But there's also a difference in "why do you want to work" and "why do you want to work *here*."

OTOH, I work in one of the most notoriously mercenary fields in the modern economy- everyone knows we'll only be with a given company for a few years, and then we'll be off to the next (bigger) paycheck.

Posted by: Buzzsaw90 at April 30, 2013 12:24 PM (SO2Q

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Or   maybe they should just be called  Diques.

 It's time we had a national conversation on welfare. Now that we know that tax payer money went to support terrorists, its due time. On Dec 19, Obama began his call for gun control action; lets replace the ideas of guns and gun owners with welfare and welfare recepients and see how a portion of his speech plays out:  "But you know what, I am also betting that the majority -- the vast majority -- of responsible, law-abiding 'welfare recepients' would be some of the first to say that we should be able to keep an irresponsible, law-breaking few from 'getting welfare'. IÂ’m willing to bet that they donÂ’t think that'getting welfare'and using common sense are incompatible ideas -- that an unbalanced man shouldnÂ’t be able to get his hands 'others peoples hard earned money'; that in this age of technology, we should be able to check someoneÂ’s criminal records before he or she can 'live off of other people'; that if we work harder to keep'welfare' out of the hands of dangerous people, there would be fewer atrocities like the one in 'Boston'"

Very true, Ace. Nice post.

But with today's mode of thought, we are light years away from ever being able to put this concept that is so ridiculously un-PC up for serious discussion, let alone for any type of bi-partisan proposals that might actually accomplish something.

Because, like, raaacist, zenophobic, bigoted, angry white males.

Posted by: AmishDude at April 30, 2013 12:25 PM (T0NGe)

This is why   I'm always banging the drum about reclaiming shame.  Shame is NOT humiliation,   but it's been redefined by the left as synonomous   with taht term.      There is little to no social benefit from humiliation,  which is generally inflicted by outside parties for sick amusement or malice.   It's a pathetic     outlet for the vanity and insecurities of those doing the humiliating    by   exercising their impotent powers against the one being humiliated.

Shame, on the other hand,    is a feeling of guilt brought about by a person's internal morality coming into conflict with their external actions.   External actors may "shame" a person for doing something inappropriate, but the shame itself is a completely personal thing,   and it's   used to correct anti-social behavior.      Even the shamers experience PERSONAL shame, for having failed to prevent this person from taking such a shameful path.

It's RIGHT to feel some shame in receiving government benefits, because at its heart doing so means that you are    unable to meet your own obligations  without aid.   A moral person of good character would recognize this shame and say, "I'm doing this because I have to   to survive,   but    I'm going to get off this dole as fast as possible because I'm better than this."    And anyone around that person should be encouraging them to do just that.  

There are many, MANY people who have to go on government benefits at some point in their lives, but who are eager to shed that monkey off their back as soon as possible.     My own family went through that period when I was very young.   These are the people for whom unemployment and food stamps and other "entitlements" are intended.   It's    the lifers -- the ones who stay on benefits from cradle to grave and never have any intention of living any other way --   who     are the    frauds.  THSOE are the ones who should feel the MOST shame, as should   anyone who associates with them.   

But instead, these frauds have been taught that they are owed these "entitlements" (man do I hate that term)     because   "the man" is keeping them down, or "the whites" are keeping them down,  or "the   patriarchy" is keeping them down,   or   "the Christians" are keeping them down,   ad nauseum infinitum.    There is no shame there;   what there is is glee.   "Look at me, taking from my enemies!  WOO HOO!    Suck it, you bastards!   You ain't keeping   me down no more!   You're buying me my shiny new rims!"

Our society has become deeply warped.   Either there is going to be a massive    cultural     correction in the very near future,   or we're going to collapse under the weight of sanctimony and smug.

230 - Mulder:

That's because the leftists/statists don't have total power yet.  Right now, we will feed you, clothe you, bathe you, tell you a bedtime story, and take you to the doctor and pay for it when you have a tummy ache.

The next shoe to drop is the one that stomps on a human face for eternity. 

And we won't be able to stop it because so many of us will be dependent on the nanny fucking state.  Govt. mandated workouts are just the beginning of this "flavor".  Watch it, they are coming.  Think I'm crazy, the idea is being floated in the UK ALREADY....

Posted by: Fourth Virginia at April 30, 2013 12:47 PM (wbmaj)

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Your tax dollars at work.

Another problem with our welfare system is the generational aspect of it all.  One of my former co-workers has a son who is learning disabled.  Up until recently, he always worked (bagger at grocery store, packager at Microsoft, etc.)  About 10 years ago, he reunited with a friend from high school.  They were in special ed together.  They have gone on to have 2 children.  This woman has 4 kids with 3 different men, and she is the third generation of her family to be on welfare.  This woman who is learning disabled is nonetheless, very savy about her benefits.  She likes to move around, so every 6 months or so, they move to another appartment with DSHS picking up the tab for the move.  Their 2 kids are the 4th generation of her family on welfare.  She and her mother are hugely obese, but I suppose that's because they live in food deserts and don't have access to healthy food/sarc!

Recently, my friend's son went on disability.  He's had a seizure disorder his whole life, but they have gotten worse to the point where he is unable to work any more.  Anyways, before he quit working, he was the one getting up in the middle of the night and taking care of the kids.  He also does the bulk of the childcare whenever he's home (which is all the time now).  She doesn't do anything but sit on her considerable fat ass.

The system has been broken for a very long time, and it seems like it is only growing exponentially worse.

Jason Collins’ jilted fiancé Carolyn Moos didn’t know he was gay until last weekend: report
‘It's very emotional for me as a woman to have invested 8 years in my dream to have a husband, soul mate, and best friend in him,’ says Moos.

I guess his twin brother, who didn't find out til last year, didn't have the heart to tell her...

Posted by: Penfold at April 30, 2013 12:56 PM (Fbt5B)

Unbelievable.   Just unbelievable.

Needed to do it for herself, huh?   Needed   to do what?  Debase herself?   Have sex?  What?   What is empowering about having sex on camera?   What is empowering about having to tell your child someday,  "Mommy was in a porno."      

I weep for her child.

Needed to do it for herself, huh? Needed to do what? Debase herself? Have sex? What? What is empowering about having sex on camera? What is empowering about having to tell your child someday, "Mommy was in a porno."

Even degraded celebrity is better than being nobody.

en español: estamos sumamente jodidos (we are greatly fucked)

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 30, 2013 01:08 PM (fNpC1)

Vivid's big deal is offering the star of the month big money for a porn gig.  They're the one's who paid stupid amounts for the Kardasian tape (which was already being pirated everywhere anyway.)

Get the job?

Yes, actually.  It kind of set the tone for the next 3 years of my professional life.