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To: Steve Lokness who wrote (103693)	2/10/2009 10:51:21 AM
From: Rambi	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 542004

In Nadya’s view, the money that she gets from the food stamp program ... and the resources disabilities payments she gets for her three children are not welfare,” Furtney said. “They are part of programs designed to help people with need, and she does not see that as welfare.” Ohmygod. While I might cut her a bit of slack on the disabilities payments- given she couldn't predict them happening, it is all the more reason one doesn't go ahead and add to the financial burden on a family already taking tax dollars and stressed. The woman is either insane, or a frightening example of the extremes to which an entitlement mentality will take you. And I HAVE had pregnant clients on ADC tell me that it was their Godgiven right to have children and we have to support them, even if they already had several they couldn't take care of, so this thinking doesn't surprise me completely.

To: Steve Lokness who wrote (103693)	2/10/2009 11:06:42 AM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 542004

Mean to me is asking people who are by necessity tightening their belts to pay for even MORE food stamps. We weren't talking about food stamps. We were talking about pushing welfare moms into the work force. Fussing about the cost of food stamps at this point sounds mean, as well. I'm not crazy about welfare programs, either, but IMO now is not the time to beat on them. Bad taste, seems to me.