Gee.....you mean (like) Muslims
????? (...Or,
Islamofascists, as you
GAWD-fearin'-folks like to call 'em.)
And just what do you God hating Athiests call them?
I don't know if you actually read the article, however, there was a lot of truth in it, and a lot of BS. I especially "liked" the one part where they talked about the gal who had been shot in the stomach, and raped. It made a point of trying to say that those who were on welfare did not try to make a lifestyle of living off the government. In her case she used to be on welfare. However, when the laws were changed she then went on SSDI as if that was not living off the government. Never did say she worked for a living. Then too, she is a single mother of two children both born out of wedlock.
I think that is what bothers a lot of people about the system. When the welfare program was reformed in 1996 it was again filled with a lot of loopholes. The 5 year limit was fastly breached, challenges were made to the work provisions, and women could still have illegitimate children to stay on the program.
The most aggregious factor was that while the numbers of welfare participants went down the numbers of people placed on SSDI swelled. Children with a diagnosis of ADD, or ADHD, were allowed on the program. The illiterate were allowed on. Alcoholics, and drug addicts, were allowed on even though there were allegedly provisions to prevent that from occuring.
Now, whether you like it or not, there is a body of people in this country that actually believe one should work for a living. They should not be allowed to live off the earnings of others specifically if they are healthy enough to work. Exceptions are always made for those who are sick, in prison, the fatherless, the widow, the homeless. Just not for the lazy, the slothful.
Prior to the gov't's causing the Great Depression if was the family, the Church, the commnity, then the town, the county, and the State, that cared for the less fortunate. However, these sources became overwhelmed, and the people were forced to turn to the federal gov't, and the federal gov't took full advantage of it to beging on its purpose of making the people more dependent on the fed just as it is now.
So, when Conservative Christians, who give more to charity then any other segment of society especially the Athiest, speak of all the damage being done by the gov't programs to the people, it is not "whacking the poor" as you would like others to believe. It is actually out of concern for the welfare of society as a whole.
Now, lets see what other lies you have up your sleeve.
