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Anyone attempting to abuse the system would be imprisoned for an appropriate time and a second offense would result in a much longer term. Yeah, hell.. It's the exact opposite.

The way it is now, they PUNISH YOU for being prudent.

Another story.. Completely true.

Lady around here draws all sorts of shit, gets a Pell (SP?) Grant to go to COLLEGE.. And they give it to her.

Nothing wrong with her.. She gets all this assistance for the fuck of it, AND now free college too. She tries for ONCE to be prudent. She says she still has grant money left over. They freak and won't give her another grant till it's all used up!! So, she learned her lesson there..

Anyway, she gets an associates degree in computer programming... but can't get a JOB programming computers because she can't actually program computers.

She took her sociology courses.. She wrote a paper on global warming. She can't PROGRAM COMPUTERS, which is what she went to college to do.

Instead, she does data entry... but a few hours a week so she won't lose her benefits.

AND NOW she's talking about going BACK TO COLLEGE for ART!

BEAM ME UP!!!

And here's the REALLY FUNNY PART.. If she went to get a free degree in education, she could become a teacher, and get a pension and the whole bit!

Effectively ending up BETTER than the working poor, who eschew these benefits on principle.. If she was smart enough to REALLY work this thing, she could leech from the State FOR LIFE and end up better than a lot of the people who PAID for her to leech for life in the first place!