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 Add the millions of productive disabled workers to the list of gripes that the millions of unproductive, able-bodied Welfare recipients have against society.
"It's not fair," said Billy Montaine, an Altoona welfare recipient, as he watches a paraplegic worker Don McCain program a computer by blowing into a tube. "What a show off." Montaine, who's a third-generation welfare beneficiary, said that McCain and people like him cause uncomfortable feelings, which may be pangs of guilt. "I can't be weighed down by a conscience," said Montaine. "I got beers to drink and ladies to romance. They're impinging on my wants and needs and it's not fair!" McCain said he feels bad about Montaine's situation, but feels that in addition to earning money, he's contributing to society. "Contributing?" questioned Montaine. "If everyone was contributing, there'd be no one left to take. And then what would happen to fat cat bureaucrats. Their families have to eat, too!" Chantell Dertell, of Du Bois, shakes her head as Carlton Farber, a little person, clocks in for his job at a tool and die factory. "My mama brought me up right," said Dertell. "She said when you got an excuse not to work, then you don't work. Here are people who have plenty of reasons to sit on their asses and watch the Tyra Show, but instead feel the need to perform labor." Dertell threw her arms up, "It just makes me sick as sick can be. Although that may be the hangover talking."
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