Why are we...

@Arkturos said
As a basis for discussion, let's hear about your source of income for starters.

@Mott-The-Hoople said
I quit school in the 11th grade. My dad got sick and died. ( I was 17)
I went wild for a couple years then met my future wife.
I started working regularly at a low paying job (construction).
I slowly worked my way up. I am now retired with SS as one income, a state sponsored pension for a second income (I paid into both)…When I retired at 62 I started me own busine ...[text shortened]... make the most out of it. Our govt is cheating a lot of people out of their lives with free handouts.

@Mott-The-Hoople said
...only concerned with snap beneficiaries? a lot of people are out of work, they cant put food on the table either.

its like when politicians claim social security is running out of money, but you never hear of welfare running out.

the deadbeats have priority...that needs to change

@Arkturos said
Hey, thank you for sharing that. These days I feel kind of wary about sharing any of my details, but I very much appreciate what you wrote.

If Trump had any kind of adult intelligence or savvy (not to mention some knowledge of history), maybe he would have come up with something like this (along the lines of Bush Senior's "Points of Light" :

"If you are concerned about your neighbors struggling (not that they would be in your neighborhood in the first place), maybe show them how to set up a GoFundMe page."

@Arkturos said
I think the rest of us are not only concerned about SNAP beneficiaries, but also about the Trump "administration" using highly skilled but currently unpaid Federal workers as human hostages and leverage (to what end?) -- not to mention all the highly skilled Federal workers who have already been fired by creepy Musk and his doofusy tech juniors.

I almost feel like we are living in an American version of Stalinist times, so maybe I'll stop here.

@Mott-The-Hoople said
You people are always making claims but never showing what you are referring to.

Federal workers hostages?

😂

Give an example

@Arkturos said
First: I gather that you seem to be retired and have two sources of passive income.

"You people" ? It's really just me.

RE: "hostages" : in case you lack the capacity to think ahead or in a branchy way: Federal workers (whether fired or working without pay) and their families still need to eat and pay bills. There will be a domino (GB: knock-on) effect for everyone els ...[text shortened]... ou wished to elicit from someone else out of cowardice, why didn't you just dare to say so yourself?

@Mott-The-Hoople said
No, I have 3 sources of income, I can tell you how to do it.
Yes you people. You are all the same, whining because you want something given to you.

Your problem on this board is you read your liberal writers and then come on here restating what you read, but fall short when asked for proof.

Wash rinse repeat

@Arkturos said
You come across as such a proud yet vapid ninny.

Edit: never mind the recent spate of bear attacks that have been in the news, this is more important on a putatively human level:

In what substrate do you imagine your thoughts and smugness occur?

@Mott-The-Hoople said
When you people get called out all you know to do is some childish BS.

I really feel sorry for you.

@Arkturos said
I doubt it, and I also doubt that you are a serious person.

@Mott-The-Hoople said
Does it matter?

@Mott-The-Hoople said
Link me to this report

@Mott-The-Hoople said
I quit school in the 11th grade. My dad got sick and died. ( I was 17)
I went wild for a couple years then met my future wife.
I started working regularly at a low paying job (construction).
I slowly worked my way up. I am now retired with SS as one income, a state sponsored pension for a second income (I paid into both)…When I retired at 62 I started my own busine ...[text shortened]... make the most out of it. Our govt is cheating a lot of people out of their lives with free handouts.