Reply #32: I wish your co-worker was an oddity, but I'm afraid she's quite common.

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There are many like her that think anyone getting a hand-out of anykind from the government is just lazy. If they would all just work harder, they could get by without any help. Children going hungry? Those lazy people shouldn't be having so many kids if they can't afford to feed them. The elderly trying to afford medicine? If they hadn't been so lazy their whole life they would have saved up more so they could afford whatever they needed in their old age. I could go on and on, but in the eyes of people like your co-worker, they are all just lazy, worthless people who are draining money out of the pockets of hard-working people. I know, because I have had quite a few similar conversations, and overheard many, many more.

Like others who have posted on this tread, it's interesting to watch them change their tune when they lose their jobs or their insurance, or when some other tragedy hits them that normally only happens to "lazy" people.