Papa John's Pizza Obamacare Hypocrisy — Page 6

"I choose to associate myself with people who have done some thing with their lives and don't live off the government for assistance."

So you've never hung out with people on Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security, were raised on food stamps or public housing that again had nothing to do with them individually, mortgage, got federal student loans/aid, were on the GI Bill (I mean, why didn't your grandfather just STAY in the military), got a nice discount for being a veteran at the local commissary, or VA assistance?

EDIT: Also what of the people who were under government assistance and DID do something with their lives? Does that make their accomplishments lesser? My mother and her family were on welfare. She and a sibling graduated from Cornell but naw, they're a bunch of moochers. Paul Ryan is a TEA Party icon, family was up the wazoo in gov't assistance that helped get his way through college.

Updated On: 11/11/12 at 11:11 PM

I hope she' s never read (well of course she hasn't) a Harry Potter book or seen any of the movies.

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Because JK lived off government assistance while writing the first draft?

Well, let me just tell you, Namo, that the government wrote Harry Potter. The government did that! Not JK!

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SNAFU, I was actually going to add more stuff and that did come to mind.

Also, the only people who could possibly know more than one local franchise owner is another franchise owner or a person in local gov't/politics who needs those contacts for area business development.

Oh puhleese! I mean people who choose not to work or have completely given up looking for work and live on welfare. I see it everyday when I go to the grocery store. 90% of the time there is someone ahead of me using an Oregon trail card (the form of food stamps in my state) and they almost always have a really expensive phone and go out to their very expensive car. Not all the time, but i see it more often than not. They don't NEED food stamps, but they WANT them so they can afford to have more luxurious things. I'm not against welfare if you're having a hard time temporarily, but when you go on it and are on it your entire lives like so many people are these days, that makes no sense! And the people who go to school on the GI bill, they earned it, they worked for it, it's the people who graduate from high school and immediatly go on welfare, that's what so many people who I went to high school with did, and it's sickening.

And jungle reds comment about criminal justice being a sketchy major or whatever is total BS I went to a very good school taught by some of the best retired NYPD officers, not from a sketchy online school.

Mind giving the name of this school? I mean you throw out a lot of vague things, but are never specific about anything...

St. John's University in Queens, where many NYPD cops graduated including I believe the current police commissioner. I could be wrong about that though.

You have any idea how hard it is to qualify for food stamps or welfare? How poor? Dirt poor. Even in those supposed 'free-loader' welfare period my grandmother, screwed out of alimony, had to work three jobs. The welfare and food stamps were hardly enough and she luckily had a great church community (and not even the kind of church community that can be celebrated by the right, I'm talking Liberation theology, let's spend the summers in a commune kind of church community) and kids willing to be the keepers of their young siblings in addition to working their own jobs. My mother, my grandmother, and her siblings are not really nostalgic for that period in their lives.

What luxurious things??????? Gov't cheese was not exactly a great commodity. I was actually heartened to know that some local green markets in my area accepted food stamps knowing what exactly my mother and her siblings had to eat from food stamps. Your living off the great lie by Ronald Reagan that the welfare system was made of up moochers, mostly black, who gamed the system to somehow get a Cadillac. It's racist, it's classist, it's vile, and I am sick and tired of your views but it is great to know that your poisoned, easily manipulated mind is the future of the GOP.

Yeah, there's people who abuse welfare, but not to that level. That is a load of bull. You do not get enough in welfare to be out buying extravagance. I see people with benefits cards in their wallets every single day. They are not rolling up in classy cars. They've got the mini vans, the rusted out clunkers. They very little income, they have food stamps that you can only use and verified places, some get cash assistance, but it's still not that much. I'm sure if you pull up their credit like almost any dealership they'd be denied.

90% of the time there is someone ahead of me using an Oregon trail card (the form of food stamps in my state) and they almost always have a really expensive phone and go out to their very expensive car. Not all the time, but i see it more often than not.


but that's why you should be happy with the ACA, and why it couldn't be more obvious that it comes from right wing think tanks. instead of spending what money they have on the latest gadgets and sleekest cars, the individual mandate says they should take responsibility and use some of that money for health insurance instead.

Wow. Being a pizza delivery guy is actually pretty similar to being a cab driver. Actually, that isn't surprising though equally infuriating.