I routinely encounter educated adults who claim it’s unfair that they’ve paid taxes their entire lives only to receive nothing when people living on welfare, food stamps, Medicaid, or disability get everything provided. It is astonishing to me that people think that they are missing out on that life. While I’m sure fraud exists, living off the system is not glamorous or the path most choose intentionally. How can anyone, unemployable and with a disability, support themselves on $900/month? This isn’t big money. We can argue about the role of government vs charity. But I just don’t get that attitude, that need to tighten the screws on what in many cases is someone’s only option.
Everytime I see an argument of "Those heartless Republicans/Libertarians/Conservatives just don't care about the poor who have NO OTHER CHOICE", there's never any data to back it up. It's just a way to use people's empathy to manipulate them.
I spent a decade working with people that were physically and intellectually disabled and got to see first hand of all the ways that the families took as much advantage of government programs as they possibly could. The organization that I worked for had the primary purpose of getting families more resources from welfare programs. I don't blame them nor am I hugely angry at them because the current system we have keeps people dependant on receiving welfare. Why would someone risk getting a minimum wage job if them receiving income puts their foodtamps, free cell phone plan, reduced rent prices, free transportation, free healthcare, etc at risk?
Government welfare is a cancer that holllows out and keeps people down and ensures that individuals and families don't fix their lives and just keep feeding their bad habits.
Yes, there are a small minority that are in brutal situations our of pure chance, but the mass majority are not that.
I was homeless for 11 years and it took me 9 of those years and a lawyer to secure SSDI while teetering on penury and insecure healthcare. Now, I live with my elderly, disabled mother and take care of her.
Fuck all Republican piece-of-shit assholes to hell.
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[ 3.0 ms ] story [ 16.4 ms ] threadI spent a decade working with people that were physically and intellectually disabled and got to see first hand of all the ways that the families took as much advantage of government programs as they possibly could. The organization that I worked for had the primary purpose of getting families more resources from welfare programs. I don't blame them nor am I hugely angry at them because the current system we have keeps people dependant on receiving welfare. Why would someone risk getting a minimum wage job if them receiving income puts their foodtamps, free cell phone plan, reduced rent prices, free transportation, free healthcare, etc at risk?
Government welfare is a cancer that holllows out and keeps people down and ensures that individuals and families don't fix their lives and just keep feeding their bad habits.
Yes, there are a small minority that are in brutal situations our of pure chance, but the mass majority are not that.
Relevant:
Every American needs to watch the documentary Waging a Living to understand the difficulties of people hovering around poverty level (aka sticky poverty) - https://emro.libraries.psu.edu/record/index.php?id=2184
Video on Youtube - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VIXFyLXSBuo&t=6s
Fuck all Republican piece-of-shit assholes to hell.