to get even a minimum - which, no way, is even enough to buy groceries, let alone insurance. People who get those $2,700+ checks each month (and that's barely enough, even if debt-free) worked more than the required 40 quarters, and in jobs that were well above menial/entry-level.
Think the guy who, on a newscast, equated welfare with social-security had opted out of it years ago. Meanwhile, a certain King James Bible preacher - who also knows a bit on how the real world operates (because he lived and WORKED there for a time - rather tongue-in-cheek, warned against this opting out - guess he had run into people who had done that, and now at 60-something...eh, things weren't going so well.
If i'm not mistaken, Pastor Barry (who WORKED for years building houses) knows a pastor who, after he couldn't preach anymore due to health issues, subsists in a 5-wheel soda can - they leak heat like nobody's business. Needless to say, Pastor Barry wasn't one to shake the plate at his small congregation - some of whom were barely scraping by.
i remember dick pulling out a $10 for the plate. That may not seem much, but the guy was like 80, and didn't have much. He had to live with his daughter, and boy was she a bitch; UGLY! all over him, because the little marine was about to bite into a small piece of cake. Yeah, i know about diabetes and all, but that slice was hardly a 2-inch square.
Guess news guy didn't get the email concerning elder abuse, either.
Anyway, news-guy was basically going on that old people are a bunch of welfare recipients. His solution? Sandwich the (40-something) kids.
Baloney!
The kids, who are helping out their folks, (and not creating church-house drama) also have their own kids to provide (college) for - and some five or ten years left on the mortgage.
And, by the way, if social security is welfare, then the HMOs - that working people pay into - are medicaid.
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