01-20-2010, 10:02 PM
swampy wrote:
My sister recently lost her job and applied for help. She was denied because her income from the previous year was too high. They were living out of their savings account and because they owned their own home they disqualified
Allow me to put on my "conservative" shoes...
Ahem..."She clearly lacked the personal responsibility that a real American would have. She should have had an emergency fund to help through the hard times. I don't work hard and keep my emergency fund AND pay taxes so your lazy sister can coast by on federal entitlement programs! I have never bought a new car and I don't have any fancy flat panel plasma TVs because I have to pay taxes to support families that spend like drunken sailors AND keep an emergency fund because I feel that it is my PERSONAL responsibility to see me & my family through hard times and NOT the government!"
There. I think I got that right.