First Posted: 3/13/2015
I am sorry to hear Thomas J. Lucente Jr. has a problem with old people receiving benefits they have paid into (“Time to ‘earn’ that welfare with drug test,” Page 5D, March 8).
He will not degrade himself when he receives Social Security, he will not see it as a handout then, he is too narcissistic for that.
If I had it my way he would be receiving unemployment and holding a sign on the street saying, “Will work for food.”
Obviously he is not a good enough attorney if he cannot afford cable. But wait, he works two jobs and still cannot live the life of a poor person, according to his conjectures on how they live.
What is really shameful, is that he feels poor children should not have the same protein and nutrient intake as upper-middle class children. Maybe he could find it in his shrunken heart and pea-sized brain to do some compassionate research and find that parents of poor children actually worked harder at one job than he ever will — and often two — to put a roof over their children’s heads and to feed them.
Lucente could learn a lot about working and living from poor people.
