Have you heard about how President Obama plans to trim the fat now?

I received a letter today from the Veterans Administration (VA) stating that President Obama signed into law on January 4, 2011 the new revised Post 9/11 GI Bill. One the of the portions of the bill that truly disturbed me was the fact that veterans, regardless of whether or not they are full time, will not receive their housing allowance from the bill for the period in between the end of the fall semester till the beginning of the spring semester. It reads as follows:

                

Break or interval pay is no longer payable under any VA education benefit program unless under an Executive Order of the President or due to an emergency, such as a natural disaster or strike.

• This means that when your semester ends (e.g. December 15th), your housing allowance is paid for the first 15 days of December only and begins again when your next semester begins (e.g. January 10th) and is paid for the remaining days of January.
• Students using other VA education programs are included in this change. Monthly benefits will be pro-rated in the same manner.
• Entitlement that previously would have been used for break pay will be available for use during a future enrollment.

So, President Obama, riddle me this. How is a full time student supposed to live when his or her housing allowance has been cut during the months of January and February? Budgeting? Well, while some of us work  while going to school, those that don't probably depend on that housing allowance to take care of everything for the whole month. So here's my solution.

 It's time we all tell Washington to stop taking from us who already scrape by to feed those who don't want to even bother. I would love to help my fellow man by teaching them to fish. I don't want to help my fellow man by catching the fish for them and then taking it off the hook, gutting it, scaling it, chopping it's head off, filleting it, and then cooking it. Now that's not to say all entitlement checks are going to the people who chose not to work. Some of those people are hard working men and women who are out work and want to work so badly they can taste it. Those people I don't mind helping at all. 

It's time to stop the entitlement spending on the leeches of the American society and tell them learn to live for themselves. The real reason why the government spends so much on entitlements is because they have made us a slave to that check for so long that if they cut it off, mass riot and high crime rates would plague our streets. My suggestion is simple. Make a deadline to find employment. After that deadline, no more money. No job, no check.