Enough with the handouts already

I was taking my kids to school today and my daughter says to me, "I need a dollar for school today." asked her why and she told me, "we are helping the kids who are on the free/reduced school lunch program be able to buy books at Book Fair." ------I am pausing to give you time to let this sink in.

After my children get out of the car, I proceed to look over at my husband and he knows I am about to off the deep end. First of all, let me say that I do not want any kid to go without books, it is not their fault that the are in this situation in the first place. Hell, I was the kid on free lunch program at my school who had everything given to them, including school pictures.

My point is this: my husband and I are middle class citizens and proud of it. We pay our own bills and pay them out of our own pocket. Last year I spent over $1000 on school lunches alone. I am just getting sick and tired of these people getting things handed to them on a silver platter. Not all people on public assistance are abusers of the system, but I think there are more that are than are not. My daughter and I are going to DC in the spring with her class. We went to an informational meeting on the trip which discussed finances. Come to find out, if you are on any assistance program, you and your child could go for free. These KIDS do need to go and I think that if the parents can't afford it, then by all means send the kids. But now all of these parents are crawling out of the woodwork for the chance at a free vacation.

These are the things that piss me off. Furthermore, I go to school and have all loans taken out to pay for it. There are LOTS of people who have grants to go due to income requirements. Of course my husband makes just over the minimum, so no grants for me. Anyway I learned what these people do. They apply for the grants, go to school for about 4 weeks and then I never see them again. The disbursement checks are mailed out that fourth week of class. And I am talking big checks, couple of thousand. It is amazing how people go on vacation right around that time too. Them they come back to school for the last week or two and take the final. They will get by with a d and come back next quarter to do the same thing all over again. They do this for FREE! Completely on us, The U.S. Taxpayers. We are providing people with free education, free food, housing, utilities, health care, heck we are now even paying for them to take vacation!!!! When does this stop??

Speak up middle class America! Our voices must be heard! I am sick and tired of pulling the weight for everyone else, it is time to get up and say, "NO!"