The next time someone complains to you about supporting welfare recipients

[baby_mouse]

Turn round immediately and say:

"You LAZY BASTARD."

[the observationist]

1. If the government didn't take care of these people do you

think they would all starve to death? :sarcasm:

[Warpy]

2. I just say "That's the most unchristian thing I've ever heard"

and I walk away.

These people are all so damned smug in their religious superiority that slapping them with how they've betrayed their god stops them dead in their tracks.

It's a great technique. Really.

[mdmc]

3. I often retort

"Are you quoting Jesus?"

[rpannier]

8. Yes they are quoting Jesus

Supply side Jesus from the Al Franken book.

[mdmc]

9. lol

:D

[Roland99]

4. Just reply with, "Yeah! I can't believe Exxon is getting tax breaks!"

[rkc3]

6. That's my response - you have a problem with feeding the poor, but

have no problem watching your tax dollars support multi-billion dollar, multi-national corporations?

Makes you wonder, don't it?

[Roland99]

11. Or bring up the massive fraud going on in Iraq costing us $10 billion/mo.

[baby_mouse]

13. The corpoerations are AMERICAN. The poor are faggotty pseudo-Americans.

Facts of their thinking.

[rpannier]

5. Well I for one am sick of supporting welfare recipients

I'm tired of giving aid to companies like United and others so they can lose billions more, default on pensions and give their executives millions in bonuses while bleeding cash.

That's what I say to people who tell me they're tired of supporting welfare recipients.

[Mist]

7. I think I'd ask "WHICH welfare recipients--the corporate ones, or

the regular poor folks?" (Same idea as rpannier, above).

[MindPilot]

10. I always ask them

"If welfare is such a good deal, why are YOU working?"

[JNelson6563]

12. I'd reply "yeah, those damn corporations!"

:toast:

[Gormy Cuss]

14. Well, it's a hot button issue for me.

I ask them how much it cost them last year, in dollars. They never have an answer. Then I say that I'm proud to support welfare recipients because most of them are children or are disabled and unable to take care of themselves without help. I know this because I used to be one and lived in a neighborhood surrounded by other ones. No one had a car, never mind a Cadillac. The biggest welfare cheats were the women who had part time jobs under the table or who sold food stamps in order to have some cash to buy extravagant things like toilet paper and soap.

I don't give a rat's ass if my money is wasted on people like that. So sue me.

[baby_mouse]

15. Of course they don't have an answer.

They don't really believe what they're saying, or know anything about it.

[raccoon]

18. Most of them don't know what they're talking about.

A lot of people think that a big chunk of the federal budget goes to welfare (non-corporate, that is).

[JohnnyRingo]

16. I tell them we probably need another Democrat to reform the welfare system

After they reply that they don't know what the hell I'm talking about, I point out that President Clinton worked with Congress to reform welfare and move all but the most hopeless cases into a workforce that grew under his leadership.

That the "liberal" Bill Clinton placed a ten year lifetime limit on welfare recipients to end the multi-generational reliance on state assistance and made approval of cases more difficult for all but those with young dependent children.

It seems that Rush Limbaugh never mentioned to them that this happened in the horrible 90s so I also point out that "I guess it helped that Clinton created jobs for these people to go to" as well.

I finish by explaining that Republicans move people from jobs to welfare, while Democrats move people from welfare to jobs

[the observationist]

17. That's a great way of putting it. I'm going to use it if that is ok? n/t