Comments on: Massachusetts Welfare Recipients Given Cars

By: Cy

Cy — Sun, 17 May 2009 05:46:05 +0000

Well this IS the CHANGE some people voted for…
As for me the eldest of 7 kids (yes a poor family), at 16 I began working part time til I finished h.s. I walked two miles (each way) and back to my first job for 3 years, and another year to a slightly better than min. wage job that was a mile away before I saved enough to buy and pay for the expenses for my first car. Then I started to save for college…to make a long story short I worked hard for what I own and I think I am a better person for it, as are my siblings whom are all significantly better off as adults than we were as kids by the simple virtue of our hard work. The liberal liars pretend they are doing welfare recipients a favor by getting them ADDICTED to government handouts. In return they expect votes from their welfare ADDICTs who have been conditioned to be afraid they won’t make it without the government teat to suck upon. This is reprehensible. There is a difference between giving someone a hand up and a hand out. One leads to self respect, the other to self loathing.
Worse still, the welfare state mentality will ultimately lead to the downfall of our nation, but I am hardly the first to say so… “The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not.” – Thomas Jefferson

By: maineach2020

maineach2020 — Mon, 11 May 2009 08:46:20 +0000

This better not happen in Maine! I will report every welfare abuser that I know and then find the ones I don’t know and report them! lazy SOBs

By: N.C.

N.C. — Fri, 08 May 2009 15:27:12 +0000

14. m on 7 May, 2009 at 9:33 am
Regarding your question, it means that once a teacher is accused of some wrong doing, he can contest it and meanwhile he will be “housed”, meaning doing nothing but getting paid. The process can last years so these teachers are being paid not to teach.

By: Dave

Dave — Fri, 08 May 2009 15:22:13 +0000

What???!!! No GPS?? Forget it. I’m not leaving California for nothing. Generalisimo Obamanista’s going to give us billions cause we’re going to give Service Employees International Union members a raise! Then the union can give millions back to re-elect The Messiah.

By: Dave

Dave — Fri, 08 May 2009 15:16:39 +0000

I’m gonna quit my job, move to Mass., get the car, sign up for welfare, and have them mail it to me at my town home in West Palm Beach, FL – ’cause winters suck in Mass.

By: Dan

Dan — Fri, 08 May 2009 12:58:13 +0000

Read the article, they do NOT give away the cars. They pay for insurance, registration, and repairs. So that people can, you know, drive to work.

Once you get outside of the Boston Metro Area, public transit just isn’t that great in MA. People need cars to work. Getting people off the welfare roles is a good thing.

A program to loan the car wouldn’t work, because they aren’t giving the car away. They are only paying the fees. And if the person goes back on welfare after losing their job, the state stops paying the fees.

By: Scott

Scott — Fri, 08 May 2009 00:14:14 +0000

I moved from this state. I could not believe the attitude they have that my labor gives others benefit and I really should like it. Adams would be crazy if he saw what they did to his country