Welfare moms unhappy with free lodging, prepared meals, WiFi, maid service

American Thinker ^ | Feb 4, 2016 | Ed Straker

[simpson96]

D.C. welfare moms are having to put up with lodging in hotels that give them prepared meals, cable TV, internet WiFi access, and maid service that don't meet their standards:

"Tiera Williams and her four children dodge cars on a winter evening as they cross the parking lot of the Days Inn to the Washington motel room the children call "Mommy's house."

"People at the Days Inn - one of at least 12 motels being used by the city to house 730 homeless families this winter – lean over the balcony that overlooks the courtyard lit by the December glow of yellow lights."

"They occupy a hidden world of desperation and poverty mixed with every-other-day maid service, free WiFi, continental breakfast in the lobby, and lunch and dinner in the 170-room motel's banquet room."

Lunch and dinner in the banquet room meets my definition of hidden desperation.

"They've been living here since August when Williams - then six months pregnant and unemployed with no place to go – called the city's homeless hotline.

She opens the door to her unit, ushering her children inside a space that she describes as "the size of two jail cells." The decor is pleasant enough, with maroon carpeting, wood paneled headboards and a television in an armoire near a bathroom vanity."

If Tiera is unhappy with her room, why doesn't she go to the front desk and change her reservation to get a larger suite, as any person paying her own way would do?

"Williams dumps bags of groceries on the motel room desk. In the mini refrigerator, she stacks yogurt, apples, oranges and a roasted chicken they will have for dinner that night. She uses her food stamps to buy meals because she doesn't like eating the pasta, casseroles, chicken, hot dogs and other dishes the city provides at the motel."

[PeterPrinciple]

Hard to keep your heart right after that...try to stay thankful and serve...because you are not serving them...gotta do it for the one who gave it all for me...

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We have some screwed up thinking regarding how to help someone. Some things for all of us to think about:

1) The Bible refers to widows and orphans, ones who truly need help. Now to find those people will take some extra work, The problem is it is EASIER to treat them all the same.

2) Helping people is suppose to be personal and discerning. I stopped giving to institutions.

3) I am sorry to say we have a lot of WORLDY THINKING in our service to others.

4) A lot of the helping in the new testament was to FELLOW CHRISTIANS, not the general public.

[PeterPrinciple]

Hard to keep your heart right

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And I will add this thought. Many times I think we get in the way of God’s plan by helping people. We help them, get a little glory for ourselves and they never get to the point where they have to turn to God.

Not saying don’t help people but check our hearts a little more. A little more discerning.

Sometimes you help people by being tough on them and telling them the truth.

[kcvl]

[kcvl]

[EnigmaticAnomaly]

Grandiloquence can be interpreted in many ways, based on context. It would behoove you all to take caution when pontificating, lest arrogance rear its ugly countenance...

[SkyPilot]

Bahamas.

[Mrs. Don-o]

THank you --- I am delighted to know this. I knew a gifted British-accented black Bahamian girl when I lived in DC. She was so pleasingly unlike so many Georgia Avenue "African-Americans."

Culture, culture, culture.

[21twelve]

I had a slinky. Well - it was my older brother’s. And a big kink in it - but it still worked okay. The one thing I recall is we never had store-bought cookies or anything other than frozen orange juice for juice. Always had home-made cookies though!

I loved going over to my buddy’s house after school. A cold glass of Hi-C and two Oreo cookies! They were rich!

[SkyPilot]

I was in Kenya a couple of years ago and the same description applied to that population. In my opinion, “African-Americans” (i.e. American blacks) have no idea how true Africans behave. They are serious, but hard working and friendly people. I cannot and will not paint all American blacks with that broad brush, but it is compellingly obvious that we have a HUGE problem in this nation with “black culture” that practices serial illegitimacy, ingratitude, antisocial behavior, and commits over 50% of all crime despite being 13% of the general population.

[lysie]

Lucky you.

My mother worked at Nestles and we rarely had chocolate except on Halloween. M and M's were my friend's father's favorite. I'd go to their house for my chocolate. Ha!