I’ve worked in non-profits sometimes making $8000 a year an NEVER took welfare. ALL of the kids in this program are eligible for food stamps which are a FINITE RESOURCE that should be going to poor people.

If working with poor people is so unpleasant to you find something else to do. But incoherent screeds about how it’s “hyper-partisan” and “hyper paranoid” to think that welfare should go to poor people when the government handing out the welfare IS OUT OF MONEY is just ludicrous.

Instead of reading Rolling Stone why don’t you read, I don’t know, a newspaper and see how the US. Bond sale went today. Oh, guess what, it went poorly and that’s where the U.S. raise the money to pay you, stupid.

Why don’t you stop reading magazines and read the government’s own reports, the one that says the average grocery bill went up 10% in the last two months, or that more needy people are applying for welfare … but some aren’t getting it because it’s underfunded.

Why’s it underfunded I wonder. Moron.

You are demented if you truly think people making huge personal sacrifices to work long hours doing largely unpleasant jobs to give back to the community by doing something most people are paid – in the case of teachers, BY THE GOVERNMENT, no less! – 3-7 times more to do are bankrupting anybody. That is pure, unadulterated lunacy. You’re just clinging to some hyper-partisan hyper-paranoid talking point that has no basis in fact. Your whole viewpoint on this matter is based on glaring hypocrisy. Not to mention that even if you DID have a valid point, you put such an ugly face on it that nobody would want to stand with you. Do you really think that insulting people and generally acting like a douchey internet troll is a way to raise awareness? To convince people of something?

For a more eloquent elaboration on just why your platform is hypocritical and ass-backwards, check this out. “Man, did they break the mold when they made these assholes.” Amen.

Edit Please don’t link to Rolling Stone or any other magazine in my comments.

People in California got their tax refunds and welfare payments in IOUS last year that the bank weren’t guaranteed to honor because rich, spoiled brats like you took money from programs meant for poor people.

You do realize that money is not infinite, right? That America stopped producing wealth about 30 years ago so resources that the government has should go to the needy, not people like you. Of course you don’t, because your rich parents never bothered to teach you how money works.

By the way, the Tea Party does in fact protest the bailout of banks, wej us don’t assualt and harass bank tellers because they’re not the bad guys.

The people you’re talking about aren’t living below the poverty level, because THEY”RE PARENTS ARE SUPPORTING THEM. But guess what chump, the starvation is here. Instead of yelping at me why don’t you go see how much food prices have increased in the last week. The use your so-called education to chart out the trajectory.

Oh, you’ll still be able to buy food, but those poor people you claim to serve? Not so much. A guy I know who works at a feed grain silo told me Friday a bag of feed was $7. Monday it was $10. Why don’t you ask the government to print up some more Wheat this year?

Maybe when those poor people you claim to be helping can’t buy food even with food stamps because it’s too expensive you’ll get why you should have not taken those limited resources from them.

By the way, I got my degree in four years. I then got my Masters. What’s your degree in and why would it take you five years? Are you retarded or something?”

Have a psychologist (or 700) evaluate these comments and see if they would deem you healthy, well-adjusted individual. You are sick.

By the way, I got my degree in four years. I then got my Masters. What’s your degree in and why would it take you five years? Are you retarded or something?”

Have a psychologist (or 70) evaluate these comments and see if they would deem you healthy, well-adjusted individual. You are sick.

You’re making the same invalid points that all the Tea Party people are making when rallying against “entitlement programs.” As if somehow you, or anyone else who takes government money but doesn’t fit your mold of a “douchebag” is exempt from your pious scorn. If you’re so against people “stealing from the government,” then maybe you should stop driving on the roads our taxes built, or maybe you should go steal the oxygen mask and wheelchair from the next old lady you see, or maybe you should go protest outside a bank that took bailout money and still passed out billions in bonuses. This list goes on forever. But god forbid someone sacrificing their time, doing something truly good for an underserved community who chooses to live below the federal poverty level and doesn’t want to burden their family (if in fact their family could even afford it – I know mine can’t) takes advantage of widely available social services. Apparently THEN its suddenly blasphemous.

Get over yourself. You’re an offensive, obnoxious blowhard with an invalid point.

Volunteers do things on their own dime.

I don’t think it’s fair to base your opinion of City Year members on just these few accounts. There are thousands of them.

Do you know what City Year members do? What time of volunteer work have you done?