Tired of the Poor!

So, I was at the gym this morning and saw the news report on school vouchers.  This is a bill that Florida Governor Rick Scott has signed to expand.  Now, I know that vouchers have been around for a while, but this expansion just makes me angry about it all over again!  I am TIRED of taking care of the poor!  This bill allows low income families to send their children to private school at taxpayers expense!! Seriously?!  I have to provide food, shelter and now private education!!

I know!  Maybe I should quit my job and become one of the poor!  Yeah, that's a good idea!  Or better yet, find a way to get fired, then I can collect unemployment, too!  I can get food stamps, healthcare, have HUD subsidize the mortgage on my home and now I can send my son to private school!  And YOU can pay for it!  Yep!  A great plan!  Oh, but wait!  You thought of this plan too?  Now there's no one left to pay for the poor...

Why will people ever pick themselves up and try to make a better life on their own if we are always giving them ways to let other people take care of them?  For some reason, people don't have the mentality they used to several decades ago.  I don't get the feeling that most people have pride in themselves anymore and have the need to want to provide for themselves and their families like they used to.  So, give them an easy way out and they will take it as long as they can.

I wish I saw an end to all this.  But, I just don't see it.  There will continue to be the girl at the checkout counter with her freshly done hair, perfectly manicured nails and designer clothes using her EBT card to buy steaks and alcohol.  Now, it'll just be worse knowing that the 5 kids she has at home will be going to private school and I paid for all of it!