Taxpayers & Free-Riders

This is a popular topic to rage about. No taxpayer wants the money that they are required to pay the government to be wasted. We hear stories of how someone took advantage of the system and wasted their 'government assistance' on a new television or spent $300 dollars of food stamps on candy bars at the Plaid Pantry down the road. The assistance given by the government is NOT free money.
 I don't like it. I don't completely understand it, however I don't think all citizens receiving government assistance are like this.
These government programs HELP people.

>Some of these people are disabled and can't work.
>Some can't get a job because of the economy.
>Some can't get jobs because they have no skills needed in the workforce.
>Some can't get jobs because they were never taught how to be someone a business would want to hire.
>Some don't know how to find a job or even know where to find out how to get one.
>Some citizens can work and have jobs but still can't cover their costs.
>Maybe they are a single parent.
>Maybe they are a student.

There are also citizens who can work and don't. They could get a job but don't. Their families and society did not instill proper values of hard work, responsibility and servitude. These people ride on the backs of taxpayers.

We are a culture of individuals. We like it that way. We like to see the fruits of our individual labor. We value the ability to not concern ourselves with the unsuccessful. We can choose to support or ignore anything or anyone we please.

We have made these people.
I have made these people.
Should we support them?

Every system has flaws because every system is made up of human beings and we are not perfect. These "moochers" are just the flaw in the system. I don't believe we should generalize this flaw to citizens who actually need assistance. There are millions of people in this country who need assistance and there are still more who genuinely need it but can't get it. We need to work to weed out assistance to those who don't need it and redirect it to those who still need it but can not get it.

If supporting citizens who need support means supporting some who don't, should we cease support?
This is America.
We are individualists who believe in helping the those who need.
Our assistance to any greater good has a cost.
Are free-riders just an operating cost?

Why do so Many Reviews give so Little Information?

Why do most film, music, and book reviewers use opinion adjectives?! Words like nice, good, outstanding, exciting, dynamic, enthralling; are all opinion adjectives. They are all based on perception rather than fact. The purpose of a review is to give a thorough, objective view point intended to cause the audience to create their own "opinion adjectives." A review guides the audience to determine whether the media presented is to the interest. If an artist has to use primarily opinion adjectives in order to deceive the intended audience into believing the media is to their interest, then the artist needs to reassess why their media does not naturally appeal to their intended audience.

-OUTSTANDING! HAUNTINGLY EVOCATIVE! - NEW YORK TIMES

Don't take media reviews from popular media networks seriously. They obviously didn't read it.

Act Of Valor (the movie)

I finally saw Act of Valor: the film about Navy SEALs.
I was disappointed.
It had some intense action sequences and spurred deep thoughts and insights but nevertheless it still wasn't that great.

I will tell you exactly what was wrong with it.

It did not show the building or growth of any relationships. If you pay close attention to the relationships/friendships in the greatest and most popular films ever made, you will notice one thing. Throughout the story a relationship is BUILT. It shows constant growth.
Now don't get too upset. You are probably thinking that I'm am dead wrong.
I'm not.
I did see relationships and companionship in the film, but it only showed existing and the results of an already strong relationship. A movie's goal is to draw the viewer into the story. In effect, by only showing the current strength of the SEALs' bond to one another and to their families, it left the viewer out.
Don't leave the viewer out of a story. It makes the story boring.
(I actually had a hard time paying attention)

When Chief jumped on the grenade I could see the strength of the bond Chief had to his men. (It was actually very inspiring) However, it only showed the results of a fully developed relationship.

What would have made the story interesting would have been to see how the SEAL team came together and bonded through hardship. Someone needs to sit the writer down and make him watch The Band of Brothers mini-series and The Pacific. Those two are the best war films I have ever seen. They had great effects, great action sequences, unbelievable cinematics, deep dynamic characters, damn good dialogue, the inside view to the development of the relationships between the main characters, and an overall great story line. If only every movie was like those two mini-series'!

Overall the effects, cinematics, and action were well done. Its too bad the writer missed the basic element in every good story; the growth of a relationship.