I feel for her. I don’t agree with her conclusion re living wage, but it is dang hard to find a job out there and I wish I had the security of knowing there would always be enough food for my kids. I’ve been rich and it is much much easier than being poor. I don’t begrudge her the food stamps. I just don’t like to hear how many people scam the system and take cash From people like that recent $5mil scammer who owned the grocery store and use the tax payer dollars to buy crack and booze.
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.
This is the house that Obama built. It is the progressive vision. When all cannot find full time work, all will be beholden to government.
There are scammers, but the system really does work hard to catch them. You hear about them because they get caught.
My wife and I both work for the state of Alaska. I do IT support and repair, have done it for the state since 1997. Nobody is getting rich doing these types of state jobs, but they are steady employment that provides good medical insurance. I was an executive chef before I had kids, worked my way up from a bus boy at 15 to executive chef at a restaurant I couldn’t afford to eat at by the time I was 30. I didn’t get rich doing that, but it was supremely satisfying. I have done network administration for the state for the last 18 years because I needed benefits and a job I could drop at 5pm and not think about until I was back at work so I could raise my kids.
My wife works as an eligibility technician, determining if people who come in and apply are eligible. It’s run like going to a bank and getting a loan. Everything about these people’s histories is online. There are all kinds of people denied. There are few people who come in because they just want to live on the dole. These are people trying to improve their lives and just not finding the kinds of jobs that will pay them enough. The scammers get caught just like people who try to game any system get caught. In the same way an unpaid speeding ticket in Tennessee will get your license suspended in your home state of Oklahoma, and people looking to give or deny you credit have access to the utility bills you’ve been late on, people applying for support are scrutinized. People are caught all the time and have benefits revoked and they have to pay back money they gamed. There is not as much fraud that gets by as the media would have you think.