You and your family sound like typical Yankee liberal moochers. Free shit is not free. Somebody has gotta pay for it.
Yup, how far back we Yankees go, start with the Revolution, and on up, Civil war, WW1 and 2, Korea and Nam on to my Son. US Army-----
Moochers, sure, we lived on the Government dole, built the war ships in the navy yard, churned out a Sub every 6 weeks working 18 hour days, most have lived on the government TIT in Civil service or Armed forces.
Sure we were moochers, stole hogs and chickens to feed the kids when their Dads were away fighting for us,
worked in war plants doing the men's jobs.
Kids at 12 set out in 6 foot leakey home made boats to fish and lobster or mucked about in the mud looking for clams. Summers spent helping out the farmers for a quart of raw milk a day. Fall the 14 year old boys went a deer hunting, most of the time was spent salting down Mackrel for winter and brewing up some kind of wine .
Some how us Moochers survived, wars ended and home came the men to again mooch off the government working civil service or State jobs police or for the woman into teaching.
You my dear are speaking to a woman who was raised as a military brat, like the bole weevil allways looking for a home. As this was the only life I had ever known I raised 4 kids, same as myself, no Dad around for months on end and uprooted every year or so. All to mooch off the Government I would guess you think.
Guess again, we were proud of our family and some how survived the life style. My Generation never had to steal chickens or hogs, but we did have to bury our husbands as someone played taps. BTDT
So who cares about the so called Moochers that are retired and get government pensions, MY Mom at 90 years old still has a dependent card and goes to the stores on base to buy some food and gets medical care.
The State of Maine has a law that goes back to WW2 that as she is a dependent of a man that served in the war she gets a $3,000 deduction on state and town taxes. Is she a Mooncher also.
Much depends on what one thinks of a Moocher, yes us Yankees are a rebellious bunch, strange to outsiders and known to have made lots money smuggling in Canadian booze in the 1920's. Today it is all about Pot, just another government program gone wrong and a new kind of Prohibition has hit and the old folk can send their grandkids to college as their own lazy kids are jail for some darn thing or another.
We Yankees can be thieves, pickpockets or pig thieves, but when it comes to AMERICA we are the first to line up to defend our FLAG, sentimental bunch we are.
Remember , Yankees are not like other folks, we are a people unto ourselves, one has to live in a small town for 5 generations before people stop calling you the New Folks in town.
