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Orlando Enrique Fiol

wrote:
>Yet, there are a lot of women of that generation who are still on
>welfare, as are their children. Meanwhile, the rest of us went to
>school, got jobs, found places to live and then had children. What
>suckers we were. We could have stayed home and let others support us.
>Instead, we paid higher taxes to look after them and their kids as well
>as ourselves.

You make it sound like life below the poverty line is a sumptuous
picnic. Have you ever asked these scores of welfare recipients you know
to provide you detailed budgets so that you see what their lives are
really like? Have you ever been to a food bank or gone to an electric or
phone company in tears because service got cut off? Have you ever had to
boil water to take a hot shower because the landlord turned off the hot
water heater? Have you ever seen your children covered in rat bites? I
suspect not, which means you know nothing about what life on welfare
actually is. As for your precious tax dollars, I don't see you
complaining when your taxes are used to fund wars, pay crooked
representatives or selectively patronize certain art forms over others.
Yet, when 1% of your taxes go toward the poor, you rant and rave on here
as though you were being ripped off.

Orlando