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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Ilaine who wrote (72104)	1/12/2000 4:21:00 PM
From: Lizzie Tudor	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

Yes it is greedy if you deliberately enact or support programs which essentially screw another group who doesn't deserve it, be it financially or otherwise. I honestly don't understand how anybody can question this. I would like to pay less than everybody else for a lot of things, but that doesn't mean my conscience will allow me to do so. For example, in my industry we are importing a lot of workers from 3rd world countries - this is in essence holding down salaries for US workers - if I had the elderly mindset I would run out and start complaining to government and get some sort of subsidy legislation passed because, well, "I deserve it" - after all, just like SS, I was going along just fine and something changed to allow these workers to come in and now my situation is different - I make less - I deserve more!! To quote a friend "I'm-mad-as-hell-and-not-going-to-take-it-anymore!!". The difference is, I don't dump my problems on other segments of society in the form of subsidies for myself. I expect this level of integrity from any adult. From the elderly, I don't get it.