EsmeraldaX
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- Aug 7, 2003
lyeag said:
I so totally agree with this.
I have held a job every day of my life since I went between babysitting and paper routes at the age of 12. I had my first "real" job at 15 working for a taxi cab company doing filing and writing down entries into a data book. Since then, the longest stretch I have ever gone without working was maybe 3 months in my summer between high school and college.
I was raised and taught that if you want things, you work for them. I am not rich by any means. SO and I have a combined income that is average for one income homes in this area. But we survive. We live within our means. We live frugally. We conserve energy. We drive a sensible car. We clip coupons. Our only splurge is our vacations.
Our town has a high popularion of non english speaking people. It makes my blood boil when I see them in the grocery store buying tons of very good food with their government assistance (with their multiple children in tow). Meanwhile, I'm sitting there buying the cheapest stuff I can, clipping coupons and basically being frugal. Why should *I* be paying for some irresponsible person's 5 course name brand meals when I am sitting there buying ziti because it's on sale this week?? I know it sounds mean, but honestly, it makes me sick. I go to this grocery store at least once a week, and I have never been behind a person who did not speak english paying with anything other than government assistance. Maybe they are learning? But I doubt it. Then I see them leave the parking lot in their nice cars. They're always wearing what look like expensive clothes and jewelry too.
We recently had a family in our apartment who was evicted. They were the lowest of the low. Both able bodied adults were not working. It was a mom in her early 40's who had 4 children by 4 different men. The last one's dad lived there as well. They were just gross. They routinely left trash everywhere including the front porch that we shared, they threw cigarette butts all over the yard. They frequently made comments about how they were "playing the government" by not working. It took my landlord over 6 months to get them out after they stopped paying rent. Then, not only did the ultra liberal MA court tell them that they did not have to pay the back rent , they also sided WITH the scummy people and told my landlord he owed them several thousand dollars for health problems in one of the kids due to mold. (The mold was never an issue until they recived the eviction notice).
They had destroyed the house. Aside from the filth left on the porch (baby diapers thrown everywhere, not in bags) they ruined tiles, rugs, broke walls and doors. My landlord had to have the place completely re-done. It cost him a fortune. My friends live there now and it's still having some final work done.
Living with these scummy people woke me up. Before that, I was a far more liberal "I don't mind where my tax dollars go " type of person. But between the family in my building and the scores of immigrants in my town who I am paying for...no more. I feel sorry for the children, but how much of my money should these people be allowed to take???
) Ok, I think I am good for now. But once again, I am soooo happy this thread is here. Hurrah! 
Maybe as VP? Us gals have got to get our foot in the door somehow. If it means being VP first, so be it. 
). Chris, my SO, had talked about looking into being a delegate for the republicans in 2008. But neither of us had any idea how to go about him doing that.
Glad the thread was started. 
