Almost 2,400 people, who received unemployment insurance in 2009, lived in households with annual incomes of $1 million or more, according to the Congressional Research Service. Doesn’t it warm your heart to know that your tax dollars actually helped the same people, who bitch about the abuses in the system, get a brand new Mercedes?
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When I lived in Burbank, two of the families in our apartment complex were on Section 8 and had most of their rent paid by the government. Even though their parking spaces always had a Acura, Lexus or BMW parked in them. Sure made me feel like a sucker getting up and going to work everyday.
That is a very frustrating feeling. Just doesn’t seem fair!
If ever there was a reason to means test income, surely this is it.
Really. Very true.