[ComfortEagle]

i have values..and one of the,m includes helping people that need it..how come when the poor take advantage of government programs its terrible, but when fortune 500 companies are ripping thier workers a new one and taking advantage of the government WAY worse then anyone who draws a couple hundred in food stamps not much gets said?

I don't recall anyone saying that a poor person (who actually needs help) who is on gov't assistance was terrible. It's those that CAN work and just don't WANT to work that is a shame. There are some people raised all their lives to believe that their whole purpose in life is to drift along and rely on the government. I went to high school with kids who told me their plans after graduating were to "draw a check."

I also know of people who got pregnant and then intentionally did not get married just so the mother could draw a check. The mothers and fathers lived together, the fathers brought in a check to the household just like anyone else, but since they were not married the mothers could get gov't assistance that any married, working couple could not.

And a key difference between someone drawing a check and the CEO of your aforementioned Fortune 500 company...the CEO actually goes to work and employs countless numbers of people who want to work and not sit on their butts all day smoking cigs and watching Maury.