RC>> Someone living off of the taxpayers, and SSI is from the general
 RC>> fund, ie welfare, he should not be deeming someone who is a
 RC>> taxpayer a failure.

 ml> why not? i say call a spade a spade no matter who you are...

 RC> No, I am referring to:

 RC> Person A: Someone earning a living within the confines of the law,
 RC> paying taxes, the whole nine yards.

ok...

 RC> Person B: Someone collecting a check from the govt in the form of
 RC> welfare, pays no taxes..

ok...

 RC> Sorry Mark, person B has no standing or right to critique person A.

i don't see why not...

 RC> Maybe you were raised different from I?

i don't think that any sane person could say, without a doubt, that they were
raised the same as anyone else other than their immediate siblings ;)

 RC> Society may have deemed welfare a necessary evil, but welfare is
 RC> not a badge of honor and anyone drawing on it, should be humble.

one can be humble and still critique others... there's nothing wrong with
that... heck, just look around here and most any other political area... there
are a huge number of folk who put themselves on some sort of pedestal above
others for some reason or another... truth be known, everyone of them/us puts
our pants on the same way...

 RC> A bank robber has no business calling a shoplifter a thief.

i don't know why not? they are both thieves... so what...

 RC> Someone on public assistance has no business calling another who
 RC> has never been on assistance, a failure.

i don't know why not... they can both be failures... so what...

 RC> Its that simple.

obviously it isn't because if it were, we'd not be having this conversation ;)

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