When are people going to take resonsibility for their own actions and quit expecting the govt. to do it for?

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from themselves?

Examples: Instead of suing McDonald's for your kid getting fat, quit taking them or letting them eat there,

Instead of whining about being on welfare and food stamps, quit popping out kids every nine months

Aren't we becoming what we wanted so desperately to get away from when we came to the New World from England and its total control over its people?

I am not addressing illegal immigration here. I am also not attacking low income people, just the one's with the "victim" atitudes. And no, I was not poor or rich. I come from a middle class family and I have indeed had to work for everything I have. If I can do it, why can't everyone else? As for the question of who's popping out kids every nine months, just look in a grocery store at the woman paying for food with the food stamp card and odds are she has six kids with her. Why are we paying her to have more kids?

When I was a kid it was expected that we provide our own school supplies. Poor or not. Like I also said, I wasn't poor growing up, but I also wasn't rich. My family worked for everything. I'm sure most people that are in poverty status are there by either choice or sheer laziness. Why should we subsidize their laziness?

Answer 1

Easier said than done- were you raised in poverty and then work your way out? Or did you come from a good family, good schools and therefore more opportunity (financially and otherwise)? If the second answer is right than don't talk about other poeple who didn't have your opportunity.

People who come from poverty know no other life. They have children because they believe that "this guy" is the one who will always be there. To be a father to their children. She is sadly mistaken after she gets pregnant.

People in poverty don't get a good education. How can they be expected to have the same advantages as someone who does? College may be out of the question. Many drop out of high school or can't go to college because they have to work more than 1 job to help their families. To pay their bills. To pay medical expenses.

People in poverty eat at McDonalds because its cheaper than eating healthy food.

Answer 2

Probably never since we have had 4 generations of the welfare system and everyone on it thinks the government and especially those who are paying the taxes owe them everything without their having to work for it.

It has gotten such that even the school kids will not bring their own school supplies to school and they expect the teachers to give them everything free or they steal it from those who have their own, yet their parents have plenty of money to buy beer and cigarettes and they drive expensive cars which can't be legally bought with food stamp money.

We need to get back to what Captain John Smith said in the Jamestown colony, "If you don't work, you don't eat" and stop giving out welfare dollars like they were nothing. They keep talking about how much the military spends, yet the welfare program spends over 20 times what the military spends and their funds are never cut because the secular humanist socialists in Congress want to keep being elected each time. It is the welfare people voting them in. Just look at how the Louisiana "Katrina vicitms" were bussed to New Orleans from Texas to vote again for Mayor Nagan and then went back to Texas. Then they complained when their FEMA checks were going to stop coming after they had been getting them for over a year. They should have just bulldozed New Orleans down, covered it with 10 feet of dirt and then moved it 100 miles upland to higher ground that wouldn't flood. Egypt moved whole communities when they built the Aswan Dam because it caused flooding. What is wrong with the people here?

The answer is the stupid Supreme Court rulings in the 60's that took prayer and the Bible out of the schools. What worked and was Constitutional for over 150 years was changed and wrecked all of society. To fix the problem, prayer and the Bible need to be put back into the schools. Then people will get back to the way it was when people took care of their neighbor, as the Bible said to do, instead of the government through taxes.

Answer 3

I don't understand why he received three 'thumbs down' for asking a very important and realistic question. Some dizzy broad answered by saying, "People who come from poverty know no other life." Well that is a crock of bull-ish. I can name so many people who had nothing all their lives but became something through hard work and persistence. Many people don't take responsibility for their own actions because of laziness and are always looking for excuses.

THE MOVIE, PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS IS A PERFECT EXAMPLE OF HOW A HOMELESS MAN WENT FROM RAGS TO RICHES. And also the true story, from “Homeless to Harvard.” My people, yes BLACK PEOPLE (in my opinion) make the biggest excuses. Most of them still blame slavery and the so-called white man for not having anything. Haha – I am a very successful black woman. If I can pay my way through college, buy a home, have good credit, stay off welfare, so can you. I grew up in a middle class family and we all worked for what we wanted.

Get up off of your lazy welfare receiving azzes and get a damn job. The black men here in Philadelphia are killing each other over nothing. The reason: They don’t have jobs or an education and have nothing better to do than cause problems in the world for the rest of us who are trying to make an earnest living.

Answer 4

Who do you know that is, " popping out kids every nine months"?
Have you seen this person/s?

How many females have you USED out of marriage with out a condom? How many are you trying to use?

Responsibility has to be taught, from a very early age, in the home.

You are really a narrow minded, prejudice person! How easily you attack the low income workers while you say nothing of US Auto firms getting Funds from the US government, or Cotton subsidies from cotton growers, nor our so called political leaders that sell our country to the highest bidder at every turn.

When are you going to take some responsibility for the illegals flooding our country by making your voice heard, (Try writing to your congress person/senator)?

When you drive, do you stay within the speed limit at all times?
You ARE a responsible driver, aren't you?

How is that you see the wood slivers on the clothes of others but you miss the plank of wood growing out of your eyeball?

Answer 5

Your's is a wonderful question, with obvious answers which I'm sure you are aware of, BUT, a lot of people are truly addicted to being useless leeches on anybody and everybody they can latch onto for a "free" something or another. Maybe they watched too much "Popeye" and that guy who kept saying, "I'll pay you on Tuesday for a hamburger today." Such weaseling and leeching is clearly an addictive behavior, and as a retired mental health professional with 20+ years experience, a lot of it dealing with addictions of all sorts, I can tell you from professional as well as personal experience (my older sister is a leech / addict of the top order, and she's 56 years old and still living off my father's money, and he died almost two years ago), it will be with us long after you and I are gone from this world. They even form organizations to "legitimize" their "leechiness", such as the democratic party here in the U.S., so, the odds of it ever ending are seemingly nill. I can also tell you, from personal experience, that prayer to Jesus our Christ is THE only answer for us to endure the suffering it takes to continually pay the way in the world for these leeches through higher taxes and amnesty programs for ILLEGAL aliens, to name but two. You just keep working hard, and earn what you can in education and income, and try to stay involved politically, even at the local level, and PRAY, that those leeches will grow up / mature, and start assuming responsibility for themselves. God Bless you.

Answer 6

It's always easier to blame someone else than to look at yourself. Some people are under the assumption that the world owes you something. Everyone always wants to sue someone to get money that they don't deserve. That is why for instance doctors have to charge such high prices because of all the Mal practice suits. I'm sure some are legitimate, but more are not. We all need to wake up and realize that no one owes you anything. Good Question!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Answer 7

You know crew you make a great argument and I am in total agreement with you. Problem is that the govt. is the problem. The programs that were originally intended as temporary helps have turned into "ways of life" that are being passed on from generation to generation. We, in the USA, are in a welfare state of mind. No one in govt. has the guts to stand up and tell the huddled masses to get off their collective asses and get to work. Why flip burgers at Mikey D's when you can lay on your back have a few minutes of pleasure, spit out a kid, collect the monthly ransom from the taxpayers and watch the soaps while "pooting" through Victoria Secret silk drawers, eating bon-bons bought with food stamps? Sounds like a great deal to me. The rest of us poor old "schmoes" can work and foot that bill.
I received a scathing e mail from young Alexa about my answer. She apparently was very offended by it. I was about to take her scathing dressing down seriously until she told me that she was working on her "Master's in Social Work" and then well, there you go, my point was made.

Answer 8

Well, it's probably never going to happen. In this "feel good" society we live in, we've made it far too easy to place the blame on someone else. God forbid we are responsible for something we created. The kicker? We actually vote to make things this way, to give us the rights to more public welfare, more lawsuits and more government officials who don't know their butt from a hole in the ground!

Answer 9

Welcome to democracy and the eventual destruction of our land. You cannot allow people to vote themselves benefits. Could you imagine at work being given the option to vote for yourself a raise? Of course you would give yourself a raise. There was a reason that only land owners could vote. They were the ones actually funding the government at the time. Non contributors should not help decide how our money is spent.

Answer 10

I agree completely.
About welfare, i think the givernment should step in and start forcing these women to be on birth control.
I wouldn't sue because i got fat from food or because i was too dumb to stop harming my body with cigarette smoke and I got cancer. I would just deal with it and blame it on my habits.
Argh@america!