re: #539 A Mom Anon

Whew, I have returned from the Bureaucracy. In one piece even.

So it’s official, The Teenager has been approved for year one of up to a four year program for what’s referred to as Vocational Rehabilitation. Yes wingnuts, that horrible Stimulus Money is being used in part to keep a young person off disability and help him learn life skills (including driving! Yay!) ,prepare him for secondary education AND get him ready for work. He is one of 50 this year. Invest in people now, payoff later when they become productive taxpayers who in turn contribute to help others like them. Circle of Life as opposed to Circle of Derp. So ha you morans. Shut down the government will you? HA again you fuckers. It’s too big to shut the whole thing down (bwhahahahaha, insert evildemondebilliberal laugh here)!!!

Excellent!

This part, BTW:

Invest in people now, payoff later when they become productive taxpayers who in turn contribute to help others like them.

Is one I find that wingnuts often completely fail to grasp. One of them once told me what I’m sure he thought was a scandalous story about one of his wife’s coworkers. She’d gotten pregnant as a teen, dropped out of school, and ended up on welfare. She finished school, then with the help of Pell Grants, went to college and got herself a well-paying job.

I said, ‘That sounds like a success story. With the help of these programs, she went from being a drag on society to being a productive taxpayer.’

His response? “But she didn’t have to pay it back!!!!”

The Teabaggers don’t care how many people are helped by these programs, because somewhere, somebody JUST MIGHT benefit more than they have to repay, and/or because people who use the programs to re-start their lives after a mistake don’t end up being punished for that mistake for the rest of their lives.