bahmer wrote:
Benjamin Franklin wrote the following.
I am for doing good to the poor, but I differ in opinion of the means. I think the best way of doing good to the poor, is not making them easy in poverty, but leading or driving them out of it. In my youth I traveled much, and I observed in different countries, that the more public provisions were made for the poor, the less they provided for themselves, and of course became poorer. And, on the contrary, the less was done for them, the more they did for themselves, and became richer.
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I agree with that statement; I think the very small percentage of the American people, who are unable to work to support themselves without the governments help, do not apply. However, with all of the many commercials on television, making it easier for folks to get a hand out; has developed new set of crazy prognosis, that are just accepted by SSA cause a "doctor" says??? kinda, what do we expect???
I wish one would have to keep proving, as I have, that they are truly disabled. (all documented proof of the injuries I sustained...both physical and mentally);that would cut many undeserving moochers who are just to lazy.