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NANCY I hear you. I worked for one of the social services programs that New York State had for handicapped people for about eight years. Some of them were glad to get a chance to go to school, have their tuition paid and get a living allowance, but others were convinced that they should get more and do less. This was at the same time that we were paying every cent of Jim's college and medical school expenses, no freebies for the middle class, and there were times it was very frustrating.
Interesting, though, over time I worked in the Unemployment Insurance department and Vocational Rehabilitation for NYS, then after retirement, I volunteered at a soup kitchen in Poughkeepsie for several years. Guess what?? Some of the same people who had been collecting unemployment, and getting free education or job training, were also getting free meals at the soup kitchen. Talk about working the system! And those of us who worked were paying for it all.