Posted on 10/05/2015 10:17:02 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
The problem is that she believes it’s my obligation to work to put food in her and her families mouths. When in fact what she should be receiving is voluntary charity. And just maybe she could say thank you instead of give me that.
I always made $1 too much for food stamps..
which means this tart had an income that totaled more than mine because I was supporting her kind in part through MY taxes..
I’m not poor because I’m lazy or stupid or uneducated..
Well there is something wrong! I’ve never heard of anyone who stays that way unless they want too..
She should have learned a trade instead of wasting her money in college.
A Bern-bot - “until an actual living wage is legislated and applied across the board.”
Sure that’ll work out just fine.
Also - anyone else think she had “help” in writing this article? The writing proficiency just doesn’t match up with the life story imho.
I’d like to hear the argument that the father(s) of her children are not taking advantage of others. The only legitimate reason she might have to be angry is the lack of quality jobs... if she graduated college with a useful degree and could not find a decent job due to the policies coming from the beltway and JeffCity, then yeah, she should be angry. I’m assuming her anger is not directed at the same people I’d be angry at though. It is a fallacy that the haves are taking advantage of the have-nots by not supporting living wages... the market should determine the value of services. I hit the drive through at McD on the way to work most days for a $1 iced tea while my coffee cools (yes, I like caffeine). There is a reason I choose McD vs Jack-in-the-Box for my iced tea fix... it is less than half the price and better tea. If a living wage meant $2 tea, I’d brew it myself, as the cost then outweighs the convenience for me. That is precisely why I brew my own coffee each morning, as I am not happy with any of the reasonably priced options.
The hard truth is that entry level jobs were not meant to support families, they were meant as stepping stones and proving grounds. Used to be these jobs were for teenagers, not single parents of 4. Used to be that men with no decent job prospects had no marriage prospects either. What changed?
Although I found her story interesting, I had not found it unique. I was wondering why she would write such a thing, and why a news source would bother to publish it.
Then I got to the last line.
“...until an actual living wage is legislated and applied across the board. “
...
You nailed it.
Sure sounds like she voted for Obama so all I can say is How’s that hope and change shit working out for ya?Should have finished a worthwhile degree that had a better chance of higher income than the food service industry.
Well, sorry, I can feel for her plight but have little sympathy.(Sympathy is in the dictionary between s—t and syphilis)
I am 76 and the only Government ‘assistance’ I have ever received was Navy Pay and now I do take my little bit of SS because it not only helps but I did start paying into it in 1954.
I didn’t make the rules, I paid when they said and I absolutely feel no remorse or shame receiving it now.
I am also a HS ‘dropout’ but have NEVER been without a job for any longer than I desired to be. But when I was a drinker I found it was easier to drink if one had a job.
Also was married for 40 some years, raised two kids and yes, the wife worked but I carried the brunt of the load.
I have never had to do it, but would wash dishes or clean heads in a McDonalds before I would accept public assistance.
The lady clearly has little understanding of economics, human nature, or her work's own actual value. I think I can see why, despite some decent writing skills, she is still struggling.
I’ve been out of the work force over 20 years.
You and 94,000,000 other people.
Maybe if she wasn’t so angry, she could hold on to a job and move up.
For over $500 a month (for a family of three) in free food
My wife and I spend no where near that for food not even two thirds that amount.
Wait. She’s got a fiancee but she’d rather ask us to pay her bills than ask him? She seems to pick some real winners.
I eat out a lot and talk to quite a few waitresses in these college towns and I tell them there is no shame in waitressing but it is not a career. It’s a means to an end. Decide what higher goal you have and work so you won’t have to waitress any more, whether it is completing your degree, going into management or launching a different career.
The saddest thing is seeing these gals in their 30s and 40s with no real future because they can’t get beyond the first rung on the ladder whether by lack of initiative or lack of opportunity.
Hey lady, howzabout a garden?
No shame in that!
I have no doubt that her kids are getting free meals at school too.
This "lady" doth protest too much.
Christine, I seriously doubt that you are a net positive in the tax base. You are, no doubt, taking far more than you are putting in.
Shame, like modesty, virtue and responsibility are no longer “hip”.
“why don’t you start valuing my time as highly as you value yours?”
I think she’s got this one backwards.
The money for her benefits comes from somewhere, and ultimately from someone who spends time working to pay taxes that fund her benefits.
I think she values others time less than she believes they value hers.
If she understood that, she’d show a little shame, or at least a little humility.
Cry me a frickin river. The only welfare we ever took was when we(my wife and I) would go out to the streets of Portland and trade a $5 bill for a cheese block and a quart of honey from the vagrants who lined up for all the free cheese and honey. You can feed a family of 4 if you know how to think!!
As my Dear Mother told me when I was a Child, there will always be someone better off than you and there will always be someone worse off than you, that’s Life.
My Father was a bit more blunt. He liked to say “Nobody Owes You a Living”. That’s how I always lived my Life. If it took working three Jobs at once to make the Money, I did what I had to do. Never wrote a Letter complaining about it to the local Rag, I mean Newspaper though.
Too bad so many people think that the Safety Net is a Hammock.
Another one of my Mother’s sayings, “You help People who CAN’T help themselves, not people who WON’T help themselves”. It’s a simple as that.
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