{"id":1509,"date":"2012-10-01T13:50:29","date_gmt":"2012-10-01T13:50:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/2012\/10\/01\/a-lesson-in-irony\/"},"modified":"2012-10-01T13:50:29","modified_gmt":"2012-10-01T13:50:29","slug":"a-lesson-in-irony","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/2012\/10\/01\/a-lesson-in-irony\/","title":{"rendered":"A LESSON IN IRONY"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- Original Post Content --><br \/>\nThe Food Stamp Program, administered by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, is proud to be distributing the greatest amount of free meals and food stamps ever.<\/p>\n<p>\tBUT&#8230;..Meanwhile, the National Park Service, administered by the U.S. Department of the Interior, tells us to &quot;Please Do Not Feed the Animals.&quot; Their stated reason for the policy is because the animals will grow dependent on handouts and will not learn to take care of themselves.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<h3>Replies:<\/h3>\n<div class=\"migrated-reply\" style=\"border: 1px solid #eee;padding: 15px;margin-bottom: 15px;border-radius: 5px\">\n<p><strong>Posted by:<\/strong> Guest on October 1, 2012, 4:41 pm<\/p>\n<div>Excellent point. The left wants people to be dependent. Those people will continue to vote for the left to get free stuff which they think they are entitled to.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"migrated-reply\" style=\"border: 1px solid #eee;padding: 15px;margin-bottom: 15px;border-radius: 5px\">\n<p><strong>Posted by:<\/strong> Stephen C on October 1, 2012, 10:33 pm<\/p>\n<div>Case in point the woman in Wisconsin, I think that&#8217;s where she lives anyway, won the State Lotto for a Million or more. Two years later it&#8217;s discovered that she is still collecting welfare. When asked about it by a local TV station she stated &quot;It&#8217;s my money&quot;. Bred to expect the handout regardless.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"migrated-reply\" style=\"border: 1px solid #eee;padding: 15px;margin-bottom: 15px;border-radius: 5px\">\n<p><strong>Posted by:<\/strong> Scan on October 2, 2012, 8:51 pm<\/p>\n<div>Stephen.   I believe She died this week of a drug overdose<\/p>\n<p>\t<!-- m --><a class=\"postlink\" href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/nation\/nationnow\/la-na-nn-michigan-lottery-food-stamps-20121002,0,5878499.story\">http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/nation\/nati &#8230; 8499.story<\/a><!-- m --><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"migrated-reply\" style=\"border: 1px solid #eee;padding: 15px;margin-bottom: 15px;border-radius: 5px\">\n<p><strong>Posted by:<\/strong> Dice Pilot on October 3, 2012, 12:36 am<\/p>\n<div>Bad Karma.  Looks like she spent all her lottery winnings on drugs.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Food Stamp Program, administered by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, is proud to be distributing the greatest amount of free meals and food stamps ever. BUT&#8230;..Meanwhile, the National Park Service, administered by the U.S. Department of the Interior, tells&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world-we-live-in"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1509","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1509"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1509\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}