I was in agreement with you. Because as you point out removing incentive for the average American to work hard and save for retirement is right up their alley. That alley being politicians looking for votes. There are posts in this thread that hope that the proposal is approved not caring that the recent stimulus will impact Soc. Sec. sooner than projected.
Disabled persons (or for whatever reasons unable to work) should certainly receive compensation. It makes sense to make decisions based on individual situation/need. I simply don't agree that a random person earning $120,000 a year "needs" a stimulus. That's absurd in to my way of thinking.
Two wrongs don't make a right. I'm aghast at the corporate bailouts, but that doesn't mean I want my children & grandchildren indebted for another $2 trillion.
Exactly. And I don't oppose all business bailouts, just the "small business loans" that were funneled to huge chains, etc. and the huge payments to major universities. We need to make sure that businesses don't fail so that people have jobs to return to.
Well, just because you work hard that doesn’t mean you can save for retirement.
Maybe we are running out of trees
True but not by me.
Define serious and who decides who has serious money problems and who doesn’t. It’s a slippery slope. I see, on tv, people in very expensive cars picking up free food. So do the rich or well off, that now have less due to a variety of reasons qualify for the things the poor have never had?
"The rich, as usual, get free food and stay rich. The poor, as usual, stay poor and don’t have a way to get to the free food give away."
Yup, my son, who lives in a group home, gets an overwhelming 168 dollars a MONTH in food stamps. WOW, let’s hear it for the government! My husband and I buy food for the group home residents every month and the workers to insure everyone gets enough to eat. We have done this for several years.
I believe I already defined serious in my post Aneeda! Read it again! They can start with people who have been unemployed for weeks with no savings, but have mouths to feed and no way to pay their bills, especially since it's damned hard to even file for unemployment now, let alone wait to receive their first check. The government finds out everything else they want to know about it's citizens....they can figure out who's most in need if they wanted to.
My DS son was working at a restaurant under a government sponsored program for the disabled. The restaurant is closed, of course. He can’t get unemployment. He hasn’t got a stimulus check. What he has is mom and dad to make sure he, and his roommates eat. The disabled poor are the last to be given a thought. Not reading your posts again.
I agree with you so I don't know why you singled out my post to ask the questions you did!
Did I in any way indicate that it does?
I'm afraid it'll be sooner than later.
Or let the big business fail, and the stockholders to pay not the tax payers....
I like it that you disagree with me or question me often. That’s one of the things I like about Keesha as well. It makes me think harder about if I still agree with what I wrote. I usually do but sometimes I don’t. Since I am human, I can be wrong and don’t mind admitting it. I can misstate what I meant to say.
my comment stands.
I sympathize with you & understand that poverty is not the choice of the way to live. But for whatever reason that as a way of happens in America. There are two ways to look at things. A person can be thankful for what they have or look at what they don't have.
I expect my son and anyone’s son or daughter, any human being in the US to receive enough food to never be hungry-that is what I expect. Yes, millions in the US enjoy what is here and millions don’t. There is enough for everyone to have enough, but it is not equal. We, the people, should not pretend it is.
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