Originally Posted by SOREHOOF (Post 755303)

Are you saying that people on welfare are more prone to engage in criminal activities? That's sure what it sounded like. I've had my income cut off more than once and I didn't turn to a life of crime.

Originally Posted by jms62 (Post 755307)

I'm saying that a good number of people on welfare are at the end of their rope and probably are paycheck to paycheck with no backup. You probably had some backup. Put yourself in a position where you have no money, no backup a family to feed. Pretty desperate no? Now multiply that by the number of people having their welfare taken away according to your master plan. Are you saying NONE of them will resort to criminal activity? If you are you are very very naive. If I were put in that situation I can't say with all honesty that I wouldn't resort to criminal activity.

Originally Posted by SOREHOOF (Post 755283)

Some Americans will do the jobs that Liberals are giving them an excuse not to do.

Originally Posted by jms62 (Post 755282)

What do you think the consequence of cutting welfare to be?

Originally Posted by SOREHOOF (Post 755319)

My master plan will boot able bodied scammers off the trough, not people in true need of assistance. They are already robbing people by scamming welfare in the first place. Middle class, and wealthy people account for as much, or more crime than the so-called poor.

Originally Posted by Riot (Post 755320)

Nonsense. The unemployed causing the elevated rate are workers - not freeloaders. Don't apply what makes up the base unemployment rate to everyone who is unemployed now.

Originally Posted by Riot (Post 755323)

Why, all those hundreds of thousands of people will magically and suddenly start working, at those hundreds of thousands of unfilled jobs that are making the classified section of the newspaper five inches thick.

There are so many jobs available today, people are offering premium wages in an attempt to be competitive with trying to keep a house, a car, and a family of four alive on $280 a week. Nobody wants to give up that gravy train.

Originally Posted by SOREHOOF (Post 755326)

I wasn't generalizing. I was very specific. SCAMMERS.

Originally Posted by Coach Pants (Post 755328)

And this is where the topic of death panels should come into play. If a person refuses to get fixed when they go on welfare then they should be put to sleep.

But like any serious issue in this country it will be swept aside. The next generation can deal with it.

Isn't that right, you old f.ucks? Thanks for the energy policy. GG

Originally Posted by AeWingnut (Post 755331)

the one where the EPA decided that Carbon Dioxide was a pollutant or that we cannot build nuke plants, oil refineries or drill?

Originally Posted by AeWingnut (Post 755331)

the one where the EPA decided that Carbon Dioxide was a pollutant or that we cannot build nuke plants, oil refineries or drill?

Originally Posted by AeWingnut (Post 755325)

Originally Posted by Riot (Post 755334)

Don't worry, the GOP is about to strip the EPA of their ability to regulate anything. You'll have acid rain and poisonous water back before you can say "liberals suck".

Originally Posted by SOREHOOF (Post 755342)

Instead of building High Speed Rail Systems we should start building prisons because the coming crime wave from the Federal Govt, along with the States, going bankrupt will fill them in a hurry. You can only print so much money before you run out of paper.

Originally Posted by Coach Pants (Post 755346)

Completely disagree.

The prison system needs to be cut drastically. Some states are actually paying private companies 10-25% more than what it would cost the state to run a prison.

Less prisons, More common sense on non-violent offenders.

Originally Posted by Coach Pants (Post 755330)

I would be shocked if there wasn't more than 20 loopholes for that in Illinois.

It's amazing how intelligent some of these welfare recipients are...Morty excluded.