What are things that get under your skin

[imported_OleTob]

1. The way our Government spends our money both Republicans and Democrats

2. The way some abuse Social Security and get away with it because of the Doctors they have to help them.

3. The way these people get on WIC and Food Stamps. Yet drive $40,000 vehicles and live in very nice homes the Government built for them.

4. The way we are overrun with illegal aliens and yet the government finds very little way to stop these people from coming here and taking our jobs and Government money from the ones whom really need it.

5. People whom beg for money on the street because they are addicted to drugs and alcohol and need money to feed their addictions...The problem here lies within the first person whom gave them a dollar and they realized they don't have to work when they can get it handed to them for free...My point on this is if you see someone whom says they are broke and hungry buy them some food if they accept then they really are if not they only want money to buy drugs and beer.

This is just a few of things that bother me..ur Government need to crack down on these people abusing the system...Whether it be Social Security or Food Stamps and give the money to the people whom need it or put it away for when the ones who do will have it...Our kids in other words...It's been this way since I can remeber and probably won't change but one can hope...But I doubt it.

All of what you posted above gets under my skin. And yet it keeps happening and we keep paying for it.
I'll add this and shut up. A local person called and ask social services about a situation. A woman with 2 kids living in public assistance housing. She has the kids but also a live in male companion. She gets child support from her ex and he has to supply ins. for the kids, the ex that is.
Ok this woman is getting free housing, food stamps, and medicaid.
The man she has living with her is making good money working for a company that supplies things to the mining industry, and she is in school to become a RN.
Yet social services tell the man that inquired about it. There is nothing we can do as long as she cooks her meals separate? I was stunned when the man told me. I said they told you what. He said that is what they told me. Now tell me that isn't abuse of the system. Yet the system justifies it? The man is probably putting back money, and the woman is getting free medical care for her kids, food stamps, and an education. Yet has probably more coming into their home than most middle class families do.
I'd like to drive a 1 year old Dodge Ram with fuel prices as they are and afford 3 vehicles, yet live in housing for assisted living, due to income?
Don't get it myself. But the system if you know how to use it. Well you can use it and get by with it.

[Craes]

under the system they cannot count the guys income since they are not married.....also if you are married and deal w/child support the spouses in neither situation matter, you can be ordered to pay 65 dollars a month cause you have no income even if your spouse makes 100,000 a year.

[7_32]

In regards to your illegal alien comment....
This has become a relatively big issue for the upcoming governor's election....so if this is something you're serious about, you may want to look at what both sides are saying about it.....

[LPDBlueDevils]

Illegal Aliens are coming in thru the Mexican U.S. border hundreds by the day. I lived in California from Sept. of last year till June 2005. They ran an article of this woman who owns a farm on the border, she says that with each day she can watch these guys walking thru her property. The government is trying to correct this issue, but honestly how can you police such a large area and keep them out. I'm not so worried about the people coming over the border in search for a better life as I am about the possible terrorist crossing. The government is doing all it can up to this point! If I lived in Mexico and thought I could make a better life for my family in the United States you bet your sweet moneymaker I'm coming, wheter it meant death, imprisonment or whatever!

[SunTzu]

Over the next 75 years the Social Security shortfall is projected to be $3.7 trillion.

In 1950, there were 16 workers paying taxes into the system for every retiree who was taking benefits out of it. Today, there are a little more than three. By the time the baby boomers retire, there will be just two workers who will have to pay all the taxes to support every one retiree.

The Social Security payroll tax is already 12.4 percent of wages, or one eighth of a worker's total annual wages. It is the biggest tax the average household must pay. Roughly 80 percent of American families pay more in Social Security taxes than they do in federal income taxes.

Despite that already huge tax burden, the payroll tax will have to be increased by nearly half in order to continue paying Social Security benefits. That's a terrible burden to impose on our children and grandchildren.

I'm gonna argue this point- I saw an claim that the state governments in 2 south west states had declared emergencies and not gotten any respones from the fed, NOTHING is being done at that level. Bush , the senate, and house don't seem to care. This will be the next 9/11/01 route, not to mention constant drug smuggling. If it was controlled , the taxes and Social Security, plus the fact that some of the folks that recieving medical treatment would have a means to pay and not walk off from the hospitals, would all be a big plus to the country. We try to close the border between Iraq and Syria, but the illegals slip in everyday to provide cheap labor. Looks like maybe somebody is making sure the labor stays available. -wait I found a way to track illegals haha-

How To Track Illegal Aliens [give them a cow]

Posted by SJackson
On General/Chat 09/22/2005 5:33:35 PM PDT · 4 replies · 79+ views

Joe-Ks ^ | June, 2004
is just me or does anyone else find it absolutely amazing that the U.S. government can track a cow born in Canada (mad cow disease) almost three years ago, right to the stall where she sleeps in the state of Washington, and determine exactly what that cow ate. They can also track her calves right to their stalls, and tell you what kind of feed they ate. But they are unable to locate 11 million illegal aliens wandering around in their country, including people that are trying to blow up important structures in the U.S. My solution is to give every illegal alien... a cow! [img]/LDPforum/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]

There was a window when Bush was first elected, with the surpluses, that everyone over thirty-something, could have been left in the old system and the next generation could have been set up in the system he promised in his pre-election speeches, at least that was what I thought he said. The gent that drew up the plan had been in for EVER, and it might have worked, but it was never acted upon and the window has LONG since passed. The Price of Loyalty ,I think is the name of his book, it's in the Lonesome Pine library system, if you care to read the whole story and why it failed.

[LPDBlueDevils]

there is 1,951 miles to patrol between the US and Mexican border. We have Border Patrol agents patroling more than ever, they have motion sensors, video cameras and helicopters. They have a volunteer group called the Minutemen, who voluntarily patrol the borders. Since Oct. 1 of last year there has been well over 500,000 "undocumented aliens" caught and sent back. What I am saying is there is no definite way to stop illegal aliens from entering the US. Unless you build a big wall, and then you piss off the Mexican president! It's a no win situation! If you beef up the Patrol Border agency the money has to come from somewhere, meaning higher taxes which is not what people want!

Agreed. [img]/LDPforum/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img] But the minutemen have a hard way to go.