This makes me so angry.
I worked my TAIL off to take care of my kids as a single mother. YES, I took medicaid & welfare, YES, I took Section 8! I also went to college (didn’t graduate due to illness) and took a part-time job.
I got OFF Welfare just as quickly as I could. I even left my state - alone with one of my kids - because my friends were looking for ways ON to public assistance and I was looking for ways OFF and I didn’t want to learn how to get lazy. I really could have used some help - I didn’t even ask my parents, although my mother would babysit for me sometimes if I got stuck between work & school.
We all need help from time to time, don’t we? But there were restrictions and conditions to whatever help I got from the government and for every dollar I earned, the government took twice that amount away so I could never get ahead.
Where’s the help for people who have worked for every single thing they get and for those who are born here & could use a leg up so THEY could get a job, afford some kind of home - legally?
I could go on but what’s the point? I’m feeling some 4-letter words inching towards the surface. This is infuriating.