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<blockquote data-quote="roadrunner2012" data-source="post: 1213712" data-attributes="member: 40736">Now, I&#039;m not a high school math whiz, but moreluck is about 65-67 YO, and she says she received &#039;public assistance&#039;, or welfare about 40-45 years ago, so she was about 22-27 YO at the time. Her loving husband who was not fired from UPS and didn&#039;t work at that cushy supervisor job is younger by a couple of years, just turning 65, so he was 20-25 YO. Likely able bodied, for sure, and I&#039;m just assuming, a white male.40 to 45 years ago means that most likely Nixon was the POTUS, Republican, just for reference. This is what he did:<a href="http://www.forbes.com/sites/briandomitrovic/2011/08/14/august-15-1971-a-date-which-has-lived-in-infamy/" target="_blank">August 15, 1971: A Date Which Has Lived In Infamy - Forbes</a>tl;dr: When Nixon’s policy became clear to the Fed Chairman, Arthur Burns, that&nbsp; August week, Burns exclaimed, “What a tragedy for mankind!”So maybe poor moreluck, her kids and her husband really needed welfare at the time, after all, they deserved it. Maybe 20 years later (another Republican in charge), her daughter needed it again, but she deserved it.So moreluck bought all she could with her food stamps, more than she needed, maybe she donated her extras, maybe she bought cigarettes with her extra money, no matter, she deserved it.What I don&#039;t understand, is how she can still support Republican policy, and can&#039;t understand that an able bodied couple, working hard, full time,&nbsp; at a minimum wage job, still qualifies for government assistance. I can&#039;t understand why she thinks that a child should go hungry and be expected to achieve at a school that is underfunded. Maybe they deserve it.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="roadrunner2012, post: 1213712, member: 40736"] Now, I'm not a high school math whiz, but moreluck is about 65-67 YO, and she says she received 'public assistance', or welfare about 40-45 years ago, so she was about 22-27 YO at the time. Her loving husband who was not fired from UPS and didn't work at that cushy supervisor job is younger by a couple of years, just turning 65, so he was 20-25 YO. Likely able bodied, for sure, and I'm just assuming, a white male. 40 to 45 years ago means that most likely Nixon was the POTUS, Republican, just for reference. This is what he did: [url=http://www.forbes.com/sites/briandomitrovic/2011/08/14/august-15-1971-a-date-which-has-lived-in-infamy/]August 15, 1971: A Date Which Has Lived In Infamy - Forbes[/url] tl;dr: [I]When Nixon’s policy became clear to the Fed Chairman, Arthur Burns, that August week, Burns exclaimed, “What a tragedy for mankind!”[/I] So maybe poor moreluck, her kids and her husband really needed welfare at the time, after all, they deserved it. Maybe 20 years later (another Republican in charge), her daughter needed it again, but she deserved it. So moreluck bought all she could with her food stamps, more than she needed, maybe she donated her extras, maybe she bought cigarettes with her extra money, no matter, she deserved it. What I don't understand, is how she can still support Republican policy, and can't understand that an able bodied couple, working hard, full time, at a minimum wage job, still qualifies for government assistance. I can't understand why she thinks that a child should go hungry and be expected to achieve at a school that is underfunded. Maybe they deserve it. [/QUOTE]

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