# Upside-down flag in protest of Obama, upsets neighbors

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**Created:** [November 8, 2008, 11:59am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/upside-down-flag-in-protest-of-obama-upsets-neighbors/200573 "2008-11-08T11:59:20Z")\
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**Post date:** [November 12, 2008, 12:38pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/upside-down-flag-in-protest-of-obama-upsets-neighbors/200573/67 "2008-11-12T12:38:07Z")

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> [@DIRTYE30](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/dirtye30/38696/2):
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> Oh. Well that’s good to know.
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> Entitlement. How has it gotten this bad? Parents? Schools? Government handouts? Probably an overwhelming lack of or too much of all the above.
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> With the emphasis on education over the last 20 years, nobody wants to get a degree and then go be a landscaper or roofer. If you are educated you are now too good to do those jobs and people would rather be unemployed and collect money, rather than paying their own way.
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> Our society provides no incentive to go do better for yourself. Given the choice what do you think happens most of the time? Pick one.
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> Work hard, overtime or second job, responsible, and struggle every week to have the stuff you need but never really have the stuff you want.
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> Have you house mostly paid for, have your food mostly paid for, have your utility bills mostly paid for, and have $3200 a month in spending money, WITHOUT DOING A DAMNED THING.
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> Sadly most Americans pick the second option, and it is going to get worse.

sweet. so lets cut off welfare entirely. give tax credits or a very small amount of grants to organizations like Salvation Army, United Way or (groan) Faith based organizations so that they can directly help the people that ACTUALLY need help. These people can stretch a dollar and will make sure their resources are going to the neediest. Also give tax breaks to people that donate to these organizations.

Now of course when people suggest this, they always say “well what about the kids?” \*\*\*\* the kids. Figuratively, not literally… :hsugh: kids are just little adults, and if they grow up with parents that teach them to leech off the system then they will turn out to be equally scummy. My family had some very hard times, but we never went on welfare. There were holidays where there were no presents, and times when the gas or electricity got shut off. Yeah it sucked at the time but after having gone through that, I now have a great work ethic, a sense of pride, and the knowledge that you don’t start a family when you’re in your mid 20’s unless you are VERY stable.

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