Replying to a message of Ross Cassell to mark lewis:   
      
    RC> Hello mark!   
      
    RC> 18 Oct 10 15:33, you wrote to me:   
      
    ml>>> FWIW: i don't understand everyone else whining about folk using   
    ml>>> the services that they have paid into for so long and never will   
    ml>>> use...   
      
    RC>>> When the system gets abused by those who didnt pay into it?   
      
    ml>> why is that abuse? there is nothing that i'm aware of that says   
    ml>> anyone who participates in is must have paid something into it...   
      
    ml>> why is it abuse when they can use the monies that you have paid in   
    ml>> that you'll never use?   
      
    RC> Then leave it in my paycheck so I can use it.   
      
    RC> Welfare should be a hand up, not a hand out.   
      
    Some - hopefully most - treat it as a hand up; others, of course, do not.   
      
   --- FleetStreet 1.19+   
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