Reply #10: My mom, too

[lapislzi]

She stole medical care from the hardworking taxpayers of New York State. She lay on one of the state's gurneys in a hallway for three days before one of the taxpayers' doctors could see her and diagnose her stage 4 cancer.

And don't even get me started on my father! He stole unemployment checks from the state for 26 weeks! But he was caught and couldn't take any more money from the state, even though it was another 26 weeks before he found work.

Even little me, at fourteen years of age, was well trained in the ways of welfare. I was issued those socialist food stamps by my parents and walked to the supermarket (clearly a tree-hugger in training) to buy bread and eggs on the state's dime. I tried stealing tampons because I didn't know any better, but the store manager straightened me out by yelling at me on the checkout line, "you can't pay for Tampax with food stamps!" I got my comeuppance.

Of course, I was able to game the system again in college. I graduated to federal money! I was in the big leagues. The stupid government even guaranteed my loans! I paid every dime back to those dumbasses. A little quid pro quo.

If only we poor had stayed invisible, as nature intended.