Angel Adams, 37 yrs old with 15 kids and complaining about lack of gov't assistance

[El Kabong]

No, having a kid doesnt automatically make you an idiot. Having fifteen and no means to support them yes, that makes you an idiot.

...ah but here's the thought process, WELFARE is a means to support them. If not for welfare, then those children would be taken from that woman and adopted by people who COULD care for them.

It's just bad news when Uncle Sam steps in to play "Baby Daddy"

[chinchekked]

I think that this whole problem could be taken care of if the screening process a little more meticulous. I'll even be a little forgiving for the sake of my point, how do they not cut her off after the 3rd or 4th child?! I'm all for helping people but I can not be convinced that this women would have had these kids if she didn't know the gov't was going to take care of them and its that selfishness and sense of entitlement that need to be cut off at the head. I strongly dislike people like this because people work hard to make decent livings and make great sacrifices throughout their lives just to get by but all this bitch does is lay on her back and wait for the gov't check.

[IamInuit]

New proof that evolution is a fact.

[Gandalf]

It's also interesting that over half of the people in the fast food industry need the state to allow them to live. Now it would make more sense to make sure that the corporations pay a living wage rather than have the taxpayer take the hit. Otherwise, McDonalds investors do well and the government is paying out money that it shouldn't need to be paying if only corporations were behaving ethically. It's the public who pay when the profits should simply be reduced.

More than Half of Fast Food Workers Rely on Welfare

[El Kabong]

Fast food jobs are for unskilled teenagers....yeah let's pay them $30 to flip burgers



Miles for a guy who has "nothing against VC" why would you constantly attack him? You have said the most hateful things about him.

[Gandalf]

No, they don't deserve 30 dollars an hour, but enough to pay the bills, rent, and put food on the table. Otherwise, those jobs just shouldn't exist and people need burgers and corporations can manage by paying labour what they deserve.

What passes between me and VC is just that too. It is none of your business and I think VC is testament to my ability to say sorry after crossing the line. You on the other hand never do so. You cannot get much more nasty than to say one 'has no redeemable qualities' and have a repeated variation of that time and time again. Now I don't have a whole lot of time for dead soldiers in Iraq, I make no bones about that. They shouldn't have been there. That is how I feel about wars based on lies, I think VC now admits Iraq was a mistake too. To say one one has no redeemable qualities for the relatively benign life choices that I make is a bit extreme. You try to paint me with the same rhetoric as would be used with a serial killer or something, when all I am is a member of this online community. This is my home as much as yours, so please don't paint me with the same kind of rhetoric as the kind of war criminal revealed by Wikileaks.

To constantly attack my work in thread after thread when it has nothing to do with the threads at hand is extremely weak too. As I say, I have worked bloody hard to get an education and do what I do. I don't like it to be sniffed at. Me being an educator has nothing to do with being a private man with strong political views. You have them too, should all people with political views join the government assistance crowd? Should we just quit and become a hippy and an isolationist following our respective unemployed paths? I'm good at what I do, and maybe you are good at whatever you do, but we still have those tangents that are not part of the mainstream. That's who we are.

In response to you, I do become extremely harsh myself and I know that. I know I can be exasperating, but you are another side of the same coin. It's annoying because I don't particularly want to be at constant odds with you, but you keep jumping into threads like the Syria one and seemingly for no other reason than an attempt to annoy me. It escalates and then we are at war again. It's like the Middle East.

[El Kabong]

No, they don't deserve 30 dollars an hour, but enough to pay the bills, rent, and put food on the table. Otherwise, those jobs just shouldn't exist and people need burgers and corporations can manage by paying labour what they deserve.

What passes between me and VC is just that too. It is none of your business and I think VC is testament to my ability to say sorry after crossing the line. You on the other hand never do so. You cannot get much more nasty than to say one 'has no redeemable qualities' and have a repeated variation of that time and time again. Now I don't have a whole lot of time for dead soldiers in Iraq, I make no bones about that. They shouldn't have been there. That is how I feel about wars based on lies, I think VC now admits Iraq was a mistake too. To say one one has no redeemable qualities for the relatively benign life choices that I make is a bit extreme. You try to paint me with the same rhetoric as would be used with a serial killer or something, when all I am is a member of this online community. This is my home as much as yours, so please don't paint me with the same kind of rhetoric as the kind of war criminal revealed by Wikileaks.

To constantly attack my work in thread after thread when it has nothing to do with the threads at hand is extremely weak too. As I say, I have worked bloody hard to get an education and do what I do. I don't like it to be sniffed at. Me being an educator has nothing to do with being a private man with strong political views. You have them too, should all people with political views join the government assistance crowd? Should we just quit and become a hippy and an isolationist following our respective unemployed paths? I'm good at what I do, and maybe you are good at whatever you do, but we still have those tangents that are not part of the mainstream. That's who we are.

In response to you, I do become extremely harsh myself and I know that. I know I can be exasperating, but you are another side of the same coin. It's annoying because I don't particularly want to be at constant odds with you, but you keep jumping into threads like the Syria one and seemingly for no other reason than an attempt to annoy me. It escalates and then we are at war again. It's like the Middle East.

Why does a teenager need to pay bills and rent? They will be living at home with mom & dad and buying bubble gum and baseball cards and apps on their phones not paying rent and bills.


Oh so what's between you & VC is just between you two, but what I say about anyone else is your business? Also have you ever apologized to VC? I mean you DID call him a murderer, does a simple "I'm sorry" fix that?

I use your work to bring you down to Earth. You act as if you're beyond reproach, as if you hover over humanity like a god as if we should admire your every single tedious thought. You're well educated enough, you have been known on occasion to make solid arguments, you can poke fun at yourself and fair play to all that, but when you get on your soapbox and flaunt your skewed views of America it irks me because you have no clue about America and you aren't even willing to learn.

So I should have no say in the Syria thread or only have no say if it conflicts with your views? You irk me when you use the alcohol thread to blather on about non-booze related crap.