Welfare

By Welfare State
Published/Last Modified on Wednesday, January 20, 2010 11:22 AM CST

My job is hard, backbreaking work and it ticks me off to no end to see people without jobs going around town. You people need to stop being so lazy and get real jobs. And by real job I don't mean sissy jobs like secretaries or computer people. If you're not working outside getting your hands dirty, you're just taking welfare from our tax money.

Makes me sick that I have to sweat and toil to provide for my family and other people can sit at home or click buttons or answer telephones and get just as much if not more as me. Everyone should have to work, period.

We wouldn't have an immigration problem if people would get off of their rear ends and do some real labor.

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Fed Up wrote on Feb 5, 2010 1:56 PM:

" I vote we stop all goverment assistance & begin personal assistance. Pay your own way. Our taxes would go do, the roads could be fixed, schools would improve . Making people accountable to support their self & faimlies solves all problems. You can spit our kids by the dozen but your going to have to have a job to feed them, drag your couch out to the front porch and plant your lasy butt on it but no more free food. IWhen these lazy fools (white, black , red) get hungry they'll get a job. So no welfair,foodstamp,crazychecks. "

to come on now wrote on Feb 4, 2010 10:16 AM:

" Please with your NONSENSE, that is bull, people who get welfare and foodstamps can and will have a car, most probably will cost more than their house....I've known of it to happen ALOT!!! So open your eyes baby, i couldn't afford a Mercedes, BMW or Escalade on my measily $70,000 and i drive a very nice car, and i'm happy! To the lazy non-working citizens shame on you! You are sick and need help! "

at the end of the day wrote on Feb 3, 2010 4:13 PM:

" It really doesn't matter what you do for a living as long as you DO work! Sitting around and/or having babies doesn't qualify you for goverment assistance. Unless you are mentally or physically disabled, you should have some kind of occupation! Flipping burgers, bagging groceries, anything, just get a dang JOB to make ends meet and stop relying on welfare & foodstamps as your ONLY incomet! It's meant to supplement those who can't make it on their pay. SUPPLEMENT! Maybe Andre Bauer will run for president in 2012, time to end the government freebies once &for all ! "

Dan wrote on Feb 2, 2010 12:52 AM:

" This is the one subject that Congress, the president or governor wont touch. Too sensitive people say, Not to me I pay for all these children to be born, get name brand groceries when my children often have to settle for store brands!
I work offshore, i pay taxes because my Father taught me to be a man.Make a Baby you pay for it, its Gods plan. We have generations of people who only know that a check comes in the mail 1st and 15th. They think they deserve it. You dont pay taxes, shouldn't Vote!!!! or anything else!!!!! "

Passer By wrote on Jan 31, 2010 9:03 PM:

" This thread is STILL going? Wow! "

Be grateful wrote on Jan 29, 2010 5:11 PM:

" You could be standing in the un-employment line and that's no fun!!! "

james wrote on Jan 29, 2010 11:43 AM:

" Sometimes i think about this topic a lot...Like what if no one works at McDonalds, Food N Fun, Grocery Stores, Secretaries, or Garbage Trucks.. we have to think that someone has to do this job..Even if you are digging a ditch, someone has to do it, ..It's a job. Now most people don't have jobs, but do we know their situation? Be happy for the job that you have,, I am... "

MAD wrote on Jan 29, 2010 10:51 AM:

" Let me tell you something. I am not on welfare! Never have been and never will be. I have one of those desk jobs that you are talking about and you know what i make close to $40,000 a year. So if you would have gotten your lazy butt up and did something with your life then you would not have to be working so hard. "

Sparky wrote on Jan 28, 2010 7:57 PM:

" Well, if you had done your job and studied hard, you could be punching buttons and making big bucks like me. Don't blame anyone but yourself.
Besides, the world needs ditch diggers too. "

Point Blank wrote on Jan 28, 2010 8:52 AM:

" A society of people who will go through life looking for a hand out. Some are capable of working just lazy. I have a friend who worked in the welfare dept., in Calif., she told me years ago files of generation of families who never work grandmother, mother, daughter
and they just pass the torch to the next generation no one is the family has ever worked. "

To come on now wrote on Jan 28, 2010 8:45 AM:

" Let me clarify what I said I'm sure some has other income outside of goverment assistance. Yes, they are driving luxury cars and living off of goverment funds that's a fact. "

To come on now wrote on Jan 27, 2010 3:11 PM:

" They might not be driving luxury cars, but I know a family where the mother is a raging alcoholic and recieves government checks every month for EACH of her 6 children who have disabilities because of FETAL ALCOHOL SYNDROME. She pockets more per month than me and I have a college degree. Oh, and she also sells her food stamps to people for gambling and beer money once her government check money runs out. Oh yea, she gets a check too because she's "disabled." She has 25% hearing loss in one ear. Poor thing, huh? "

Mensan wrote on Jan 27, 2010 10:27 AM:

" Oh look, an underachiever is bitter and resentful at moderately successful people and they come out in full force to condemn this injustice and correct his ignorance.

Naturally, when the intellectually gifted attempt to correct ignorance in those same middle of the road folks, it's snobbery and elitism.

It's true, Welfare State doesn't seem to know the definition of welfare. He probably doesn't believe in evolution either. He also probably watches Fox News and believes it to be trustworthy. "

KEKE wrote on Jan 27, 2010 8:48 AM:

" Umm just to let you know sitting behind a desk is a "REAL JOB". I may not do physical labor but I sit here and bust my butt day to day to collect my little checks. I am a single mother of two. I work very hard and don't really make that much money. I try to get assistance but I can't because so say I make to much. Ur right it makes me mad to know that people who don't try get the help. Y work if you know u will get help. "

speaking of jobs wrote on Jan 27, 2010 8:33 AM:

" How come is it that every fast food place in NI is full of incompetent workers. Doesn't anyone take pride in their work anymore? About 75% of my orders are messed up. No one smiles anymore or says thank you. They are too busy to take your order because they are either talking on their cell phone or talking to their co-worker. Most are rude and discourteous and don't know how to dress professionally. I know that when I was in fast food 20yrs ago, that I would have lost my job if I acted like that. "

Come on now wrote on Jan 27, 2010 7:58 AM:

" To Freeloader, You would have to give me the name of the people who are living off of the government and driving these so-called big cars because evidently you don't know how much money they get per month. Welfare clients and food stamp clients don't get much and you cannot own a vehicle worth over a certain amount. I know because I work for the government! "

Free Loaders... wrote on Jan 26, 2010 8:47 PM:

" I see folks driving luxury cars and living off the goverment. Nothing was given to us growing up we had to work to get ours. Some folks seem to think the world owe them something. Some come from a generation of non-working families who have lived this way all their life. The mentality that's a way of life for them just don't know any better. "

To Cajun wrote on Jan 26, 2010 8:39 PM:

" While in (TX) some weeks ago @ the grocery store standing behind a Italian man dressed very nice wearing expensive leather Italian shoes I know what they cost. The guy kept eyeing me he swiped a lone star card the embarassing look on his face. My point some folks have no shame in their game and some do. It made me sick too. "

tom wrote on Jan 26, 2010 4:50 PM:

" I just can’t understand why everyone is “bad mouthing” the poster. Just think of how good our drainage system would be if everyone was a ditch digger.

Nothing wrong with digging ditching. But the diggers need someone with the ability to write payroll checks, or to decide where to dig the ditch. "

Huh wrote on Jan 26, 2010 3:53 PM:

" If I am working at a sissy job then I am not getting welfare. Your post does not make any sense. Why don't you get an office job instead of sweating outside. Work is work. Nobody's stopping you from getting another job. It seems you have a big problem and I don't think posting this can solve your problem. I got a big laugh reading it. "

me wrote on Jan 26, 2010 2:49 PM:

" I have been having a sissy job for almost 36 years. My sissy job helped me to pay for my home, expenses, etc. I will soon retire and get my sissy check. You can get a sissy job too so don't bash my choice. "

Lewis LaBlanc wrote on Jan 26, 2010 1:36 PM:

" Consider yourself lucky to have job. I have been in education for 25 years and can't find a job to save my life. Looking a job is my job. I find it painful to rely on UI checks, which sometimes don't show. As I said, be glad you have a job, and enough with the name calling. I'm sure you are no longer a child. "

mama knows wrote on Jan 26, 2010 8:36 AM:

" CRY BABY!!! Shame on you bashing people for what they do for a living! Some of us stopped a moment {in high school]& decided we didn't want to work hard ALL OUR LIVES"! So we went on to better our education to become what we wanted to do in our [grown up years']! Get the picture? Just how far did you go in school? Why didn't you get a better job than what you have? thought about going back to shool to learn a better trade? Quit moning & at least you have a job!!!! "

Cajun wrote on Jan 25, 2010 9:08 PM:

" No what makes me sick , is that some of us went and got an education and graduated and are working our butts off ! All of US who are working to support our families and living paycheck to paycheck cannot get FOODSTAMPS like those uneducated people who do not have jobs and are living off of our taxes ! Its amazing to see a FOODSTAMP member driving an ESCALADE and living off foodstamps...I'd be embarassed swiping that card anywhere ! "

To the Whiners.. wrote on Jan 24, 2010 12:01 PM:

" Thank god you have a job. Some folks whine because it came too easy for them when you find the shoe on the other foot you cry foul. Some of us never had it as easy as others we been working hard all our lives. No, life is not fair get over it and move on!!! "

Some Nerve wrote on Jan 23, 2010 8:40 PM:

" My job is hard, backbreaking, I hate sweating and toiling," sounds more like a crybaby....Any job that draws a paycheck whether it is at Popeyes or the Dollar General is respectable. Apparently somebody gave you connections to your first real job. Quit whining. Show some respect for people who toil and sweat just like you. At least they are not out selling drugs. "

Foks in NI wrote on Jan 23, 2010 10:15 AM:

" It seems to me you have nothing else to talk about. People choose their own path in life so be it. So petty!!! "

Brainiac wrote on Jan 22, 2010 12:05 AM:

" Thanks DI you finally found an article to fire a few people up. It is my opinion God gave us different abilities for a reason. Not all of us can toil in the elements day-in and day-out. He protected us by giving us the ability to think and work inside the box. Some like Welfare State only have the ability to work outside the box thankfully, because I truly hate freezing and sweating. Thanks for your manual labor Welfare State. Us Brainiacs need you guys for lifting our garbage cans and yard work. I'm not-kidding. "

Mais Jamais wrote on Jan 21, 2010 7:26 PM:

" Welfare State ... it's good to know that even a man's man can push buttons and click to get his point across. We might make a sissy out of you yet. I bet you enjoy working with all those other sweaty real men while all the sissy men are working in the office with the women.

You're real point is correct though. No one who works doing anything and has taxes taken out of their check truly cares for government funded laziness.

But you need to work on your social skills. "

MeMeG wrote on Jan 21, 2010 2:48 PM:

" EXCUSE me, but I work as a secretary/receptionist/prodution clerk/ everything else the company needs me to do. It may not be physical labor but I asusre you it is hard work that is very demanding. I'd like to see you do what I do. I bet you'd get fired on your first day. "

This is really a lame uneducated post wrote on Jan 21, 2010 1:36 PM:

" Wow! I did not realize a person post a comment that is so stupid about welfare. The first thing you should do is go to your local Office of Family support office or the state of Louisiana's website to get information about the qualifications of welfare. My point is do your research before you post something lame and uneducated on this or any other website. You really need prayer because times are hard and people are really suffering economically. I can not believe someone could be so ignorant. "

Jeff wrote on Jan 21, 2010 1:11 PM:

" If everyone thought like you, we'd still live in caves. "

To Wefare wrote on Jan 21, 2010 9:40 AM:

" First of all you apparently don't know what welfare is. If you working then you not on welfare. No matter what you do in your job its a paying job. Seems you upset because your job makes you sweat and you not in the ac all day. Better get unbitter before you are on welfare. "

me wrote on Jan 21, 2010 1:57 AM:

" Well i do computer repair and other computer work. I am not on welfare i went to school to get a job doing what i do. I don't think that because you work inside on a computer it is welfare i worked outside before and i know what it is like. "

Amy wrote on Jan 21, 2010 12:57 AM:

" At least they are working. And yes I have a job and no I'm not a secretary or anything. I am a cashier and yes my back and feet hurt at the end of the day. I get cuts and callouses on my hands and I have to be away from my kids and husband. That's life. Not everyone can have a labor intensive job, the world doesn't work like that. If there weren't secretaries you would be mad cause there was no one to answer the phone when you called a place of business. Think before you speak! "

Lucky You wrote on Jan 20, 2010 9:06 PM:

" Try posting some leads to these thousands of available jobs. "

Secretary wrote on Jan 20, 2010 9:02 PM:

" I'm a secretary, and I don't think my job is a sissy job. I make my boss more productive so that her talents can be maximized. Just because you have a labor job, doesn't make you above the rest of us. "

Anger issues wrote on Jan 20, 2010 8:41 PM:

" That was a very unfair statement. Just remember that YOU chose to do this type of work instead of going to college to get a degree. I don't work outside nor do I get my hands dirty, but I do teach some of you or others' undisciplined children everyday. I chose to go to college and get a bachelor's and master's degree. My work is hard, but I love every minute of it. And, I do not take welfare from your tax money. Actually, I probably pay more taxes than you do. "

Captain Jack wrote on Jan 20, 2010 8:01 PM:

" Well Sir, I work very hard and always have. Yes, I do not sweat anymore, but I do work hard still. It sounds like you are bitter because you have to work hard because you have no education. That my friend is your problem. I too at one time had to work hard because I had no education, but I eventually grew tired of it and went back to school. Stop B####ing about having to work hard, and do something about it. ARRRRR "

Grandma wrote on Jan 20, 2010 6:50 PM:

" Now wait a minute. You're saying that people who have jobs who work more with their minds than with their hands are lazy? Buddy, you might not have a job at all if someone with brains hadn't hired you. And let me tell you - just in case you've never tried it ....Brain work can be very exhausting..... "

William Wright wrote on Jan 20, 2010 6:47 PM:

" Wow, aren't we bitter.......Some of us had to pay to go to college to get a good paying job!!! By paying for college, I mean working a dirty job to get money to pay for it. Believe me it wasn't easy but in the end it was worth it. I work off of a computer and believe me it's work, I may not be out in the cold and getting my hands dirty anymore, but this is what I went to college for... to get a better education to get a better paying job!!! I've been where you are.... "

Larry The Cable Guy wrote on Jan 20, 2010 5:04 PM:

" My comedy routine is hard work too. Please stop stealing my material. I patented the phony redneck routine, and put a lot of work into developing my character.

Get your own shtick! "

Charlie-1 wrote on Jan 20, 2010 5:01 PM:

" As Mr T would say, "I pity the fool." The fool being the fool who says working any kind of job that isn't manual labor is sissy. My father was like that. He quit school in the third grade. He put down anybody who wasn't exactly like him. You know, like an Archie Bunker. I'm sure glad I didn't listen to his foolishness. "

kmd wrote on Jan 20, 2010 4:37 PM:

" Sissy job? Is that like manly man? "

Not So wrote on Jan 20, 2010 4:24 PM:

" So the person who pushes some buttons and creates your paycheck is not working?
Sounds like you want us to go back to an agrarian society. Well, Worker Boy, it ain't going to happen. "

RG_New Iberia wrote on Jan 20, 2010 4:05 PM:

" Um, boo reality check, sitting behind a computer or being a secretary is a REAL job. You choose to have your sweat back breaking job. You could easily go sit your rear end in a nice A/C office but you choose not too. I have a real job with what I do and I sit behind a computer all day but guess what if I wasn't sitting behind my computer all day you wouldn't have a pay check. "

Are you sure wrote on Jan 20, 2010 3:54 PM:

" Maybe that sissy that writes and signs your check should quit and like you say - Get a real job! I understand if you are speaking of government abusers but to call educated people who happen to work in an office sissies.....I'm speechless! "

To Welfare wrote on Jan 20, 2010 3:34 PM:

" I my only suggest to you is to have a cold beer and put your feet up and just sit a spell. Your nerves are razzled. "

To Welfare State wrote on Jan 20, 2010 3:32 PM:

" Well excuse me for having a sissy job. But my sissy job pays for welfare the same as yours. Just because yours is outside dont mean you pay more in taxes than I do. And just maybe, just a tad, I decided to get a good education so I can have a sissy job instead of digging ditches. Oh and by the way, this sissy dont collect welfare. "

Seriously wrote on Jan 20, 2010 3:29 PM:

" How would you get paid without us sissies doing the computer or secretarial work? "

Welfare State from CajunJedi wrote on Jan 20, 2010 3:09 PM:

" You really don't have a clue do you. It is almost ridiculous to even answer this poor attempt at dialogue. My sissy job as you refer to it probably require more hard work then you will ever do. And as far as people who are receptionists, I know many who can work circles around you. My suggestion is that you take a shovel, dig a hole and crawl into it. "

A Computer Person wrote on Jan 20, 2010 2:46 PM:

" I wish I could feel sorry for you, but, you lost me after your third sentence. You must be suffering from heat stroke, because, you sound like a lunatic. "

Get Real wrote on Jan 20, 2010 2:21 PM:

" You can't be serious about the "sissy jobs" part - really? Secretaries and "computer people" are just as important to the economy as you think you are. It's a gigantic system, a network, that makes the world go round - and those "sissy jobs" are an integral part of that network. I'm pretty sure a "computer person" made it possible for you to type your ignorant rant. Get an education from a "sissy" teacher. MANY people work hard - not just you. "

Say What wrote on Jan 20, 2010 2:18 PM:

" You have a vague point, but who will do the "sissy" jobs? Does not the world run on computers? "

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