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Originally Posted by bkholdem
I collected food stamps and lived in a homeless shelter for a month. I've paid back more in my share in taxes bro
During this process of picking yourself up by your bootstraps did you: drive on any roads, use any form of education, eat any food, find employment, use the market, feel secure in your ability to engage in mutually beneficial transactions with other citizens?
If you did not do any of those things, then yeah bro you did it without the government. But in reality you did not.
Thanks for paying back into the system so that others can get back on their feet when they fall down. The social safety net is a wonderful thing, even if you don't want it to be.
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I survived DESPITE government assistance. Not because of it. The govn't wants to latch onto people with problems and keep them dependent and in the system for life. That's what they do, the proof is in the pudding.
Again, this is patently false.