7 Billion of us live on a tiny spinning rock in the middle of nothing. The sooner we figure that out the better.

I resent my tax dollars going to pay congressional salaries almost as much as I resent wasting them on wars.

Glad you're here! This is a place where most of us tend to believe that we ARE our brothers' keepers, and that we ARE indeed obligated to look after "the least of these."

Let's make sure wrongney does NOT get anywhere NEAR the White House, except maybe for one of those White House tours.



Now get to work. We have a President to RE-elect!

people like you than there are of them!

Like when the person in front of me at the grocery store is buying WAY better food than me. And when their EBT card runs out they pull out a big wad of cash and rip off a $100. I tell myself this person is an exception and many more people are being helped. But I wish the Democrats would start bitching about this and do something about it instead of hearing Republicans saying the entire program needs to go.

people who signed up to get my social security through GoDirect. I cash it out of the ATM and often pay for things that way. You would be very wrong about me. And good food - I am diabetic - I have no choice.

as a commie, I think that healthy nutritious meals should be served in government owned cafeterias and should be free to all. If you were flush and had some extra money, donations would be accepted, but if you needed food, you got it.

Honestly, do you watch the transaction ahead of you that closely?

Sometimes several people back in line seem to know.

I find it strange that some people are on the look-out for those on assistance.

They must be miserable creatures.

When they see black people buying food.

I do use my card to buy the best food possible so I stay healthy and don't get sick. I try to use the card respectfully and use it to buy the healthy food and not boxes of processed garbage that will give me diabetes that will cause me to be a bigger drain on the country's resources.

You have no idea what an EBT card looks like.
Mind your own business.

just wondering.

i couldn't identify a food stamp recipient if i tried.

Not.One.Bit.

Can you name three?
And I don't mean the millionaires.
This is what I tell my CONservative friends, when they bring this carp up!

welfare queens... hence the fancy dress in the pic

for those who have hit bottom. It's part of living in a civilized society. I won't say I smile when I do my taxes, but I don't mind paying my fair share of those benefits.

everybody else's birth control pills. You know, the kind of people his lordship mittster of wrongney dismisses as "lazy moochers." I told her that wouldn't matter because I, for one, would be THRILLED to help pay for poor women's access to contraceptives. And I put it to her - "seems like a much better bargain to me - a few bucks a month in taxes going toward preventing unwanted pregnancies, OR would you rather have to pay many many more dollars a month in taxes for the care and feeding and other support for all those unwanted children who start flooding the system because their moms couldn't get access to affordable birth control or other family planning services?"

Oh. (Moment of silence followed.)

Well, uh, hmm, she kinda mutteringly admitted that she, um, hadn't thought of it that way.

Then she conceded that I had a good point. She's also edging back around from viewing me as a "baby killer" because I believe in a woman's right to have the last word over what happens to HER body. She actually admitted that she doesn't want to see Roe V Wade overturned!

the black hole of corporate welfare in all it's guises.

And have gone up from there. Although I was an unwilling beneficiary of food-stamps as a child, today I understand the power and absolute importance of such programs. I didn't build my life by myself, I had plenty of help, a lot of that help came from government programs.

I'm living at home, not making very much money since I work part time and my taxes were only like 10% this year, but I still don't mind what I paid going towards social welfare. It's always better to help people than blow people up.

And continue to do so until they pass a jobs bill that will prevent us from going off this fiscal cliff, the Fed cannot do it alone.

Of course, most of them probably consider their actual pay as a kind of bonus considering the advantage their jobs give them regarding investments.

I bet if you added up the amount of money paid to "scammers" as you call them it wouldn't amount to a fraction of the tax dollars KBR, the DOD and the oil companies piss away in a week. Are there folks gaming the system, yep, and it sucks. Does that mean everyone on food stamps and welfare are losers, unwilling to take responsibility for themselves? Nope, most are single parents who made a bad choice, or a bunch of them. I'm willing to slip some of my money to them in hopes their kids get a decent meal, in hope they do well in school and make better choices.

As far as their health insurance, I'd rather get them to go to regular Dr visits so they don't overload the ER Rooms with minor issues.

Aside from the Obamacare comment it looks like the crap spewed at Free Republic. So you consider people who are disable to be scum bags, huh? So every wounded veteran is a scumbag? Every person injured due to some work related accident is a scumbag? Everyone working 40+ hours a week, but still can't afford healthcare is a scumbag to you? Disgusting.

Not so thrilled about the Iraq war or the tax cuts for millionaires.

I just don't want to see them going to any more pointless wars.

is that 57% of my taxes went to kill or prepare to kill people abroad.

I honestly feel 90% (minimum) should be used to grow our country and its prosperity!

like big oil and I REALLY resent my tax money going for tax breaks for companies shipping American jobs overseas.
I do not resent my tax money going to help people who need a little help. If people have been on welfare all their life, then yes I resent that but I put the blame for that on gov depts that aren't properly doing their jobs. I just don't understand how they can't stop that kind of thing.

Because the guy down the street is deprived of help at my peril, for I may be next.

farm subsidies to factory farms, tax breaks to huge corporations, etc etc bother me more than a down on his luck person trying to stay alive and getting a little welfare!

and it is not pretty.
I married my High School sweet heart away from her abusive,meth-addicted husband.
Starting out,the only work that I could find was minimum wage and for a family of five this meant getting assistance.
We did not live high on the hog and the monthly interviews and scrutiny of our finances was humiliating.
But my children grew up healthy and today have children of their own and they pay taxes.
Thank You to everyone who proudly paid their taxes,with out your help then i would never have been able to eventually find a decent job to support my children,now i help others.
I am proud to pay taxes and proud to be an american dad.

Thanks for YOUR SERVICE to the country. Folks that save women and children from bad situations and adopt kids that had a tough beginning and try to negate the horror of growing up unwanted and unloved serve their community well.

Pell grants and subsidized loans enabled me to go to college. I wouldn't have gotten anywhere without an education, and now I'm happy to pay my fair share of taxes.

Our First Lady was right when she talked about not slamming the door of opportunity behind you.

Encouraging people to get trained in a vocation or helping them go to college shouldn't be controversial.

And Medicare and Social Security represent the best of America. I'm eager to get to 2014 when access to health care for everyone will finally be a reality.

Social welfare programs enrich the lives of many beyond the immediate recipients.

Meanwhile, my taxes are subsidizing Willard Romney's wealth and that also ticks me off. The man is a parasite.

Growing up, we were lower middle class. We didn't have a lot of extras, but we sure did have enough to have a home, food, some clothes, and we went on a little vacation to New Hampshire almost every summer. We never needed any assistance until my senior year of high school, when my father lost his job because some jackass who worked at his bank stole money. My dad was humiliated to be out of work, but got unemployment and eventually got another, better job. That's the extent of help that we needed.

As I've aged, my husband and I are aware daily how fortunate we are - we work hard at good jobs, have health insurance, money in the bank for now and for retirement, every need we have is met, and practically every want is as well, or will be in time.

There are many others around us who are in the same situation we are in who bitch and moan about "all those people who never work and get money" and the "people with cell phones, tattoos, and fake nails driving a Mercedes" who are on public assistance. My usual answer to the whine is, "First of all, how much is enough for you? Don't you realize how fortunate YOU are? Secondly, even if we had nine cheats out of ten people receiving assistance, I can live with that, because that one family left truly needs help."

Honestly, how much is enough?

someday one of those folks getting a little help may be my boss or my doctor...........
and I hope if I am ever down on my luck, they will extend a hand.

Don't like these.

Money to people who spend it here? People who spend it and stimulate more business? Bring it on!!!!

53% of it going to the military.

where our second kid was born and we were pretty broke, and we got food assistance for awhile. Towards the end of that time I got a good raise and we settled some money problems; then I got a notice from the state that we had actually not been eligible for assistance for the previous 6 months, and would have to repay close to $3000.

Well, it wasn't good news, and I thought there was a good case to fight it, but considering that the money would go back into the program, and that our circumstances were improved enough to manage, I spent the next year paying the money back. No complaints, and sending the last check in felt very good.

I, too, have a problem paying for war.

my thought is that we could do with a few less drones.

Agree 100% with you. K&R

I find it sad that there are so many who do not believe they should help each other in times of need - it is me, me, me and they are some of the most unhappiest people in this country.

Much of our taxes go to kill INNOCENT CHILDREN.
I would rather see that money go to FEED them, than kill them.
Not enough is going to feed them, and too much is going to kill them.

I particularly resented my taxes going to wage war in Iraq...

Universal healthcare not tied to employment. The scheme as it is is a form of wage slavery and even then, isn't fair.

If we need to send an extra check to the IRS, I always write something in the memo line, like "please use for the hot lunch program" or "please use for Title I program".

But I do regret that my tax dollars may have gone towards killing people overseas.

We support our own. That is what a civilized society does.

none of my tax money, since that is where most of it goes. And if it goes to white people, it's those immoral white women that have black boyfriends.

My family needed some help once when I was a kid and my mother was trying to raise a family on minimum wage. Even if we hadn't, helping those less fortunate was just the way we were brought up, even before hard times fell on us personally. That was just what was done in a civilized society.

Paying your taxes is the least a person can do to help others. If one has a chance to help someone that they meet personally, it's a pleasure.

How many times does that happen? What about those we've never met? Should they do without because we can't see them?

We know their needs still exist, and who knows, we might be one of them one day. Nothing to be resentful about. We are all equal, we all need help at one time or another.

to stop voting GOP was to point this fact out to him. He is in retail. The retail store makes a LOT of money from EBT, especially as it is the only grocery type store in a food desert.

I told him: You think the retail food outlets do NOT depends on EBT? What would happen to them if it was cut?

"I'll happily, HAPPILY pay taxes for the rest of my life in order for
your little boy to get a decent education." He didn't expect this and
he was speechless. It was so gratifying.

early on in my life I'd never have made it this far. I won't go into the reasons as that's more personal than I want to get right now but let me say this. Welfare saved a family from literally starving to death. mit rMoney can eat my day old underwear. Fuck him

If that was all they did with the money, I would donate extra. But for now, they would just spend it on bombers and bombs, so no thanks. I will pay my due, but no more.

I would pay more. But then I'm a socialist, I'm kind of hard wired to believe that the community is more important or at least as important as me.

Within our family unit (4 of us - polyamorous) we practice monetary socialism. Once I step outside into the real world, my job is compensated much higher than the other two who work equally as hard. One of our members is on disability but he takes so much care of our child and our house that he works as hard as any of us. We all place our money in a community pot and we each take a stipend. An identical stipend, because when we cross the threshold back into our home, we are equals.

I wish I could see a way that democratic socialism could actually work on a larger, even global basis.

So, I guess that makes me pretty darn left, eh?

Wish I knew more of it went to those in need, but happy to help who I can when I can.

As he will tell you, himself, Mitt is fit to explain how the American system REALLY works.

Whatever extent the programs are abused, the good they provide makes them worthwhile.

By next month we'd have SP Health care and a gazillion road projects underway, and the pentagon would be holding a telethon

Our foreign policy is arrogant and stupid, especially with respect to the Middle East, and the blowback can be terrible.

Sometimes our attitude toward so-called "terrorists" reminds me of the attitude of Japanese right-wingers, who take the very real suffering of Japanese civilians during World War II as their starting point but act as the world suddenly decided to beat up on Japan for no reason.

There's a history to all these protests, and most Americans don't know this history, just as they didn't know why Iranians were angry at the U.S. in 1979 or why the Soviets went into Afghanistan.

I'm smart enough to know that it might be me on the receiving end sometime, and I'm happy when people that need help can get help. In my mind, this country could be doing a lot more for those people, too.

When I was working (I'm now disabled), I contributed about £10 a year to our welfare funds. I've have happily paid five times as much.