How many of this 30 million are professional mooches? My guess is the figure would be staggering, but not surprising to say the least.
The local news in Birmingham did a bit day before yesterday about a group of volunteers cooking and feeding a Thanksgiving meal for the needy. In order to avoid drawing the ire of some people, I'll not get into the ethnic difference between the eaters and servers. Suffice it to say the demographic was split evenly between the two, clearly divided by the serving line. The camera panned across the room at those shoveling in the grub and not one person, not one, looked older than 35 and they looked anything but needy. The reporter spent the minute to minute and a half of segment time bemoaning the fact that the economy was the cause of this increase of people being forced to eat at charity kitchens. When she said this, I said "bullshit" loud enough that my neighbors could hear. From my experience, the crowd looked no different than in holidays past where free food was being handed out. These people were the career unemployed.
It's this kind of shit that has jaded me to the point where I scream, "fuck charity." I know that probably makes me a bad person in the eyes of some, but this kind of shit is way different than feeding the homeless or the elderly. There was nothing at all about these people that led me to believe they were the victims of "the global economic crisis." The only thing they are the victim of is their own laziness and unwillingness to get off their dead asses and do something to earn a paycheck. Fuck, I'm so pissed off I can hardly type. I'm tired of busting my ass to succeed, only to see people who play the system and not lift a finger to help themselves reap as big a reward. if not bigger, than the one I bust my hump for. I hope every one of these leeches contracted a severe case of the undercooked poultry shits and a stomach ache that rendered them even more useless than they normally are for a few days. Fuck them and fuck the people that feed them.