Reply #63: Upset? No.....

[Uben]

....disgust maybe. If you need asistance, you do it the way everyone else does, you swallow your pride and apply for it. I've been there, laid off three times in the eighties. I stood in line and signed up for assistance, stood in line for gov't handouts, and sold belongings to feed my family. I didn't run up my credit card debt because I knew I could not pay it. Credit cards were never meant to be a "last resort". By definition, a deadbeat is someone who fails to pay off debt, a lazy person, a sponge. If you think that is more honorable than thief, that's your business. Taking someone else's money with the intent to defraud, no matter how you frame it, is thievery. Was Bernie Madoff a deadbeat? No, he was a criminal. He took other people's money with no intention of paying it back.