Yes, things like this make you wish you could truly starve the beast.
Sad thing is I have known people that DID need help to get back on their feet, and they had a terrible time ‘qualifying’ for aid, likely not the right ‘look’ or something, I don’t know.
I totally agree. I have no problem helping people who really are in a situation and need a hand up. I’ve done it in the past, sometimes when it’s been tough to do. I just despise the fact that the government is so arrogant as to tell us how our money will be divided and who will and will not get the unconstitutional welfare.
Sad thing is I have known people that DID need help to get back on their feet, and they had a terrible time ‘qualifying’ for aid, likely not the right ‘look’ or something, I don’t know.
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Not black or brown, forget it.
When my son was in the 5th grade we found out he was almost deaf in his left ear. It would take a very sophisticated hearing aid to help him, but we couldn't even pay for his hearing test! I was told to apply for Medicaid, but when I went to the local office I was told that I was (1) white (2) married and (3) my husband lived at home, so there was nothing they could do to help. I was so stunned... I should have asked to have it in writting, and signed!
They have regulations to prevent people from abusing the system. The problem is that they make them so complicated that people who are honestly in need but ignorant of the system are unable to navigate their way through while the professional moochers who have made it their business to study the system are able to sail through.
My friend who applied for aid after her husband was disabled has spent a year trying to get some aid. With three kids and her job and trying to care for her husband she doesn't have the time to spend a week doing nothing but going from state office to state office filling out forms and telling her story over and over.
My sister-in-law, however, knows how to work the system to a T. She has not worked in ten years and yet she always has money to spend on... let's just call it recreation.
She can spend a month doing nothing but annoying the state aid people to get a bit more in food stamps or better housing. Why not? She has nothing better to do.