I don't understand the hostile attitude this poor guy is getting from us. Low income housing is for people with....... LOW INCOMES!!! You can't say "spend more on rent", because if you don't have it, you don't have it. I happen to live in a pretty nice townhouse in a pretty good part of town, but if my roommate moves (which is a possiblity due to a job offer), I am going to have to move someplace else, and I flat can't afford more than $450/month. It's not about making choices, it's about cold, hard numbers. Further, you will never find a more economically conservative guy than me. I hated the way the welfar system was run, and I am not too fond of it now. With that being said, I have three friends who have used it as it was intended to be used with great success. One went from being a dead-broke single mother to being a college professor, and the other two went on to get decent jobs and get off the system. Having just graduated from college, I can tell you that it was rough for a single guy like myself. Having a wife and two kids? I don't think many of you realize just how hard this guy is having to work to keep his head above water, both economically and scholastically. Add food, car repairs, gasoline, insurance, doctor visits and everything else and then see if you can show him where he is supposed to kick out another $100.00.
Then there is this attitude:
For the last couple of years, I've had to work enough overtime to make an extra $10k to be able to pay my bills and do what I want to be able to do, not submit my freedoms to a government agency. I'd like to know where it says in the consitution that anyone is entitled to have their family first and then use government programs to supplement their schooling, housing, etc.
If I were a 16 year old girl with no money and no future, I'd get knocked up so I could get free schooling, daycare, housing, etc so I wouldn't have any bills to pay once I got through school.
Really? You can't see where the government is set up to help and provide for it's citizens? I would agree with the general sentiment that the government is far too intrusive, but to imply that the government and the people within have no responsibility towards each other is just plain stupid. If you would like to see the part of the constitution that relates to this, look no further than the preamble.
We the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.
Your right, it doesn't say anything about pregnant 16 year old getting free schooling, specifically. The lines about domestic tranquility, posterity, general welfare and justice should say all of it for you. Look, as I said before, I am no fan of big government but things happen to people. 16 year olds get pregnant. Jobs get eliminated. Medical issues drain savings accounts. I would like to think that there are controls in place to help Americans (be they private or federal) get out of those problems. You can make many arguments about how the programs are mismanaged: you won't get any argument from me on that front. I don't support universal healthcare, big government or overreaching social programs. I do, however, believe that if I am paying taxes, I would rather that money go to someone who is truly in need and who will use that money to become a contributor to our country as opposed to a pox on it. If you want pregnant 16 year old girls to be punished for life for a mistake, thats your right as an American. I want pregnant 16 year old girls to have the support necessary to work their way out of their mistake and contribute to society, in addition to raising children that won't become the next generation of idiot thugs. Which, by the way, is exactly what you get when you mix a lack of education in with poverty and a dash of feeling helpless. Maybe I am an idealist, but I would much rather live in a country that looks after their own than one that doesn't.
All that being said, Christian or not I would simply store the gun in the house and not say a word about it. Fact is, I would much rather break a lease and get in trouble than have a guy break into my house and kill my family or me.