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RE: A strain on the Economy
By JediJeb on 8/13/2010 5:26:15 PM , Rating: 2
unfortunately, there are an awful lot of people who are 400+ lbs and live on welfare, food stamps, and medicaid. I wish it weren't that way, but it is. Yes, it is costing us more.

That is why I included the part about the "socialized" economy. The progressives make a socialized economy sound good, but in the end it is the ones that want to take from the system without paying into it that reap the benefits while those who pay in but don't qualify for benefits get the raw deal.

RE: A strain on the Economy
By Lerianis on 8/14/2010 12:27:56 AM , Rating: 2
Wrong. The fact is that most of the people who are 400+ pounds and live on welfare, food stamps and medicaid ALREADY had disorders, mental and physical, that would have kept them from working BEFORE they got that overweight.

I know three families in my area that are like that, and I thought that of them as well.... until I actually talked to them and they showed me the documentation that the wife had MS and the husband had mental disorders that even while medicated, with his past history, meant that no one would hire him.

He had been looking for a job because he wasn't on total disability like his wife and no one would hire him. They gave him his past history (which he was legally required to reveal) as the reason.

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