[So as a former poor person, I thank you for perpetuating the cycle that left me living under a tarp for several years. If I were eligible for welfare or charity, I would have spent a much longer time living on your tax dollar, instead of the one year of government-subsidized luxury, with a whole one meal per day while living out of a hundred year old shack with only a wood stove for heat.

Really, thank you. The "fark you I got mine" attitude of you and your ilk has enabled me to experience poor life without the help of welfare or charity, so I got to see exactly what kind of real and lasting damage that attitude is causing to the country.]

Back before minimum wage laws, back before minimum health insurance coverage, back before unemployment insurance requirements, ANYone could have/would have taken you in, given you a warm, dry place to sleep, clothed you, given you three square meals, and a stipend, and in return you'd have to repair fences, feed livestock, iron clothes, make beds, etc.

Even a serious dredge of a 16 yo can handle that.

Your ilk's attitude destroyed that. You MUST be paid $7.25/hr in any employment arrangement, even if you can't fart without help. If you work more than 30/hrs a week, you MUST have this insurance, that insurance, and a guarantee that you'll never be sad. (Maybe that last bit hasn't passed the Senate yet)

You created this system with your inability to think or solve problems.

Take your lumps, muppet.