E. Dave has been on welfare for virtually all of his adult life.
Wolfie,
I'm pretty sure a 20 + year career in the Navy doing SIGINT ain't
welfare.

Hm......I guess we just disagree on that one.

Hold it. I got a dog in this fight, so I'll stop counting my food stamps
(green ones with Jefferson on them, not them ones with the "Great
Communicablator" on them) and chime in.
Number 1: These folks on welfare, they supposed to work?
Number 2: Are you defining "welfare" as any gubmint job, or just the
military life? So, like, air traffic controllers are also on welfare, or
not? I understand "providing for the welfare of," but not being "on
welfare."
Number 3: How 'bout the "quasi military" kinda things, like CIA and DIA and
all the rest of those intel guys. The FBI?
Number 4: How 'bout people taking gubmint grants? For research and the
like?
Number 5: How 'bout people who only have a job because of the gubmint?
Like lawyers (if it twern't for them danged laws, enforced by the gubmint,
we wouldn't have 'em danged lawyers)

See, you're using "welfare" as a trigger word. You throw it at some one who
takes pride in the fact that he has provided for his family, some one to
whom being the recipient of charity is as low as they can personally sink,
emasculating. Would you be so base as to attempt this, knowing the outcome?
Intentionally trying to emasculate one, and in the process, intentionally
trying to inflict collateral damage on many others with a similiar
background? You can't hurt yourself with these words (even though you were
in the same, albeit a bit smaller, boat), but many others can take offense,
especially when you question their life's purpose.
Kenny, in an altogether different thread, Kenny, the guy who's to the left
of communists (hyperbole here), is outraged at Opie for allegedly breaking a
law. And then in this thread, you compare the compensation given to someone
who's made it his life's work defending those laws, national and internation
al, to the social security given to my handicapped brother. My brother,
who, even though illiterate and so crippled he can barely walk 50 feet, has
decided to become the dispatcher for the local volunteer fire department,
just so he can feel a bit better than a charity case.
You've created a barrier to communication with the choice of words. Most
would not try to delve into the concepts inherint in your remark, but
rather, become defensive and attempt to return the pain. I don't know you
all that awful well, some time fishing together, tag team wrasslin' a
bear... So I gotta ask ya, do you really want to continue in this vein,
intentionally ****in' folks off instead of letting them hear your Rush
Limbaugh wanna-be ideas, perhaps even converting a few? You feel lucky
punk? Do ya? (plagerized hyperbole)

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Frank Reid
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