- Joined
- Dec 20, 2009
- Messages
- 75,684
- Reaction score
- 39,939
- Location
- USofA
- Gender
- Male
- Political Leaning
- Conservative
-Welfare
-AFDC
-Medicaid
-Food stamps/EBT cards
-Government cheese/government peanut butter
-Free or reduced school lunches
-WIC
-Pell grant
-Cash for clunkers
-Electric vehicle tax credit
-Federal Tax Credits for Energy Efficiency for solar, wind or geothermal upgrades
-Unemployment compensation
-Free or discounted digital TV converter box
-Free Government Cell Phone
-Section 8 housing tenant or landlord
-HUD project resident
-First time home buyer down payment assistance
-Any other government hand out for which you or your parents when you were a minor had to request or otherwise apply
I have bolded those which I know I or my family have qualified for at various points, and have underlined the ones that we took.
Academic and athletic scholarships and GI Bill excluded as those are earned. Social Security and Medicare excluded as well as we are all required to pay into it.
If I stay in the military, I will probably pass on my G.I. Bill to my kids, if I get out, I will probably not fully use it. Both Social Security and Medicare are unlikely to be there for me in my older years.