New taxes for Mass taxpayers?

[DryRain]

19. You had a point?

The Department of Transitional Assistance contacted 477,000 welfare recipients who were on their books from June 1, 2011, to May 31, 2012,"

So, by your own figures, less than 3.8% of addresses were flawed?

Gee, wonder where that 477,000 "who were on their books" withing a year went!!!

It seems obvious that you have little background in social welfare, and, from your post, only care about YOUR OWN welfare.

"me asking my State to do a better job before they put me in bankruptcy is some how hate speech"

No, it's not hate speech, it's how we care for each and every family in financial trouble, we do it poorly, and many of them wind up in bankruptcy, sorry to say.

You seem very self-centered, and willing to cut the wages of those that are hired to protect your financial ruin from utter calamity.

You seem to think your case is somehow more worthy than thousands of others out there, and you plead for us to keep you from bankruptcy?

No, I'm sorry, I don't see public policy ever being perfect, 100% accurate in whom they offer public dollars to.

I could have just as easily mentioned the waste at the Probation Office and the Hiring Scandal, the waste in construction costs on the Big Dig and the Non-Profit Rose Kennedy Greenway Association. So in one point you are correct, the example I used was a poor one in as much that people on welfare are vilified by the strong and should not be used as a rock to hit someone over the head with. They should be protected.

Ah, but you didn't, you went after the welfare folks, the financially challenged, the poor, the disabled, the sick, the children.

Waste at the probation office? The hiring scandal? The waste in construction costs on the "big dig" from 10 years ago? The Non-Profit Rose Kennedy Greenway Association, (all of $20 million in 9 years for something that didn't work out to be perfect?)

I guess you never ran a business, only pinched pennies for your family. You never saw a business start up and fail after millions of dollars went into it. Never saw a guy open a local gas station or convenience store or a woman open a beauty shop with $50,000 to $200,000 invested and lose it all? That's what happens in America, people make choices, take chances, invest in the most likely options, some succeed and some fail.

You went after the 19,0000 out of 477,000 and made them all look like they were taking $300 each and every month from the taxpayer, but you couldn't back up that allegation with a single fact, you backed it up with a well-dated mailing list with less than 4% error rate. You evidently don't know much about statistics, about human dynamics of moving and taking chances and making bets on the best appearing options. You seem to only care that each and every tax dollar (or private enterprise dollar) is spent perfectly accurately, a basic human impossiblity, but you have your right to sing your song of complaint. After all, we all have to listen to depressed and cynical people like you, and we ought try to do better in making a difference than you folks ever tried to do in any attempt to provide ALL the facts and links to whatever you are complaining about.

Your family is in financial distress, try to look on the bright side, you actually NEED the help you are offered, and most of the other folks in your condition do, too, not 100% of them, but damn close. Now tell us how you are going to pay us back.