Replying to a message of Ross Cassell to mark lewis:

 RC> Hello mark!

 RC> 18 Oct 10 15:33, you wrote to me:

 ml>>> FWIW: i don't understand everyone else whining about folk using
 ml>>> the services that they have paid into for so long and never will
 ml>>> use...

 RC>>> When the system gets abused by those who didnt pay into it?

 ml>> why is that abuse? there is nothing that i'm aware of that says
 ml>> anyone who participates in is must have paid something into it...

 ml>> why is it abuse when they can use the monies that you have paid in
 ml>> that you'll never use?

 RC> Then leave it in my paycheck so I can use it.

 RC> Welfare should be a hand up, not a hand out.

 Some - hopefully most - treat it as a hand up; others, of course, do not.

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