tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2464907671323745628.post12889428168469266..comments2023-05-15T01:33:27.777-07:00Comments on Croft Adventures: I'm standing on my soap box. Again.Meghanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15261238896920242933noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2464907671323745628.post-12675280260069593222013-03-29T19:42:43.932-07:002013-03-29T19:42:43.932-07:00Our country is getting more and more entitled. As ...Our country is getting more and more entitled. As the percent of citizens who does not pay federal taxes gets closer to 50%, they will be voting on government entitlement programs that the taxpayers pay for. Something is wrong when the ones who influence who our leaders are, are just takers.<br /><br />My father was fiscally conservative for years but now that he's retired and on Medicare and social security he has flipped to vote for fiscal liberals and who he votes in has raised my family's tax payments. He laughs about it and says he knows he flipped now that he's a taker and no longer a contributor.<br /><br />SIGHChristineMMhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17388497877158577422noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2464907671323745628.post-61064243061388584382013-03-26T15:37:09.238-07:002013-03-26T15:37:09.238-07:00I just wanted to tell you I LOVED this post. I'...I just wanted to tell you I LOVED this post. I'm grateful there are programs to help people who need help. I really am. But I'm also one who gets frustrated with people who won't do their part. I just had to fire someone because he would regularly not show up, or come in extremely late. I felt awful, knowing he had a wife and other responsibilities, but he refused to pull his own weight, and even admitted to it. That was two days ago. Today, he emailed me a bunch of paperwork to fill out so he can get unemployment, and medicaid, etc. He won't get either because it was a student job and he won't qualify for it anyway, but FOR REAL??? I just stared at the email, floored. You can't manage to show up for work, so I fire you, but then you think you're going to be able to get money for free...basically because you suck? Woah. There's my soapbox for the day. Ahem. But mostly, what I meant to say, is I'm proud of you for working hard, and that little boy of yours is incredibly lucky to have you for a mom. :)DeeAurahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13154845125554443759noreply@blogger.com