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Originally posted by hoosier
Many of the poor and deprived are simply living with the results of their own choices.
If they choose to drop out of school, and choose to use drugs, and choose to become parents without marriage, they are likely to be poor and dependent on welfare - and many of the women have several children with assorted fathers, no marketable skills, and no prospects for imjprovement.
In spite of their situation, these people have a vote, and they have discovered that they can vote for a living.
They can vote for whomever promises the most welfare, the most weeks of unemployment funds, and the most benefits.
Most often, this vote goes for the democrats.
It's sickening.
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To a certain extent, I agree with you. Not all people receiving some form of government assistance (i.e. welfare, educational funding, farm subsidies) are receiving it because of their missteps in life. I am receiving federal money for college, and my only misstep was not being born to rich parents!
In this day and age, there's no reason why a person can't finish high school (at the very least) and find some sort of job. It may not be fun, enlightening, or enriching, but bills don't pay themselves.
The culture of entitlement that has developed here over the past 30 or so years is pretty disgusting. If that mentality was present during the infancy of our nation, I shudder to think what we would be today.
I know a few people who are only voting for Bush because of his tax cut plan. They disagree w/ him on almost every other single point. That, IMO, is equally sickening.