Posted on 10/05/2015 10:17:02 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
**She should have learned a trade***
That’s what I did years go.. Welding, Electrical, pipefitter and plumbing, Steel fabrication and fitup, machinist. Was NEVER without a job unless I wanted to be without a job while in between jobs.
Hard work but it paid off well.
LEARN A TRADE!
It’s a big job gettin’ by with nine kids and a wife
You know I’ve been a workin’ man dang near all my life
I’ll keep on working long as my two hands are fit to use
I drink my beer at a tavern and sing a little bit of these working man blues
Well, I keep my nose on the grindstone, work hard every day
Get tired on the weekend, after I draw my pay
But I go back workin’, come Monday mornin’, I’m right back with the crew
I drink a little beer that evening, sing a little bit of these working man blues
Sometimes I think about leavin’, do a little bummin’ around
Throw my bills out the window, catch me a train to another town
But I go back workin’, I got to buy my kids a brand new pair of shoes
I drink my beer at a tavern and cry a little bit of these workin’ man blues
Here comin’, workin’ man
Well, hey, hey, the working man, the working man like me
NEVER BEEN ON WELFARE AND THAT’S SOME PLACE HE WON’T BE,
He’d be workin’ just as long as his two hands are fit to use
Might drink a little beer at a tavern sing a little bit of them workin’ man blues.
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There was a reference to a divorce, FWIW.
Yours is the most reasonable reply...
Husband and I are married 32 years. We have (almost) raised five children (youngest two in college). I work “dead end” retail (w/a few years as a real estate agent—got licensed via community college courses) for about the last 30 some years. Why? Because I could work evenings & weekends and my husband could watch the kids.
Much has been said about her “advancing” up the food chain where she works and fast food management was given as an example. I’ve never worked fast food, but I’ve been a store “assistant” manager (keyholder) where you make a couple dollars more an hour than the clerks but, w/o a 4 year degree in business, marketing etc. you NEVER become even a store manager.
All that said, I have worked w/enough women like Christine to know her story. Not making excuses, but the working world is different now. Most are part timers, hours are not “set” so the weaving in of a second job is almost impossible. And she has kids. So if they are to have any kind of after school activity that figures into the equation as well.
Some of my co-workers ha e qualified for SNAP, CHIP and Food Stamps. They weren’t proud of it, but trying to keep an old car on the road (so they can get to work) coupled with unexpected illness, injury, and a stretched budget snaps. What do you do without?
The tone of her article is whiny, but that doesn’t make her points any less valid.
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(In before financially solvent Freepers boast they are so overwhelming wealthy that they pay their neighbors mortgages too!)
Am I the only one who noticed the polished, professional style of writing in this article? (I only skimmed the first twenty replies). This was written by an experienced writer, not by a single mother with kids and a job to distract her. I call BS.
No mention of dad in this equation either. Again, no accountability for bringing babies into this world with a loser's sperm donation.
I had similar thoughts.
Keep your legs together, stay single and get an education. The rest will work out from there.
And yes my time is more valuable than hers.
What’s the Masters in?
Those that do not succeed, do not most often because of the poor decisions, along the path, they have made. What happened to the college education? Must have been in some liberal useless course with no job demand.
Maybe she is not even smart enough to succeed at Food Stamps. We all see the overflowing carts filled with everything under the sun, which it covered by whipping out the EBT card.
Sounds like she fails to fill in that her kids have cell phones (which are 25% of her monthly grocery budget).
Reading between the lines, this probably was written by some liberal journalist using dire straits in a fictitious tale to tug at us to “give more”.
She does mention a divorce
And two adults in the home but only one working
And if,by chance,she's a member of that 95% she can shove her anger right up.....
Robot hamburger factory makes 360 Gourmet Burgers every hour...
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3100817/posts
The fully ironic thing is that those unemployed food service employees will someday use their food stamps to buy a robot-made burger...
I wish I could work. Am a 100% totally & permanently disabled (rated “housebound”) disabled veteran. I miss the interaction with other people, the working towards a goal, etc.
I have been on both sides of the issue, although I have never applied for food stamps. I have had quarter million dollar years where I paid more in taxes than I made in five not so good years combined. Income level goes up, and it can come down just as fast or faster. Booms go bust, and the contacts you had who retired are replaced by those who give no credit for adapting to do a job from drafting on velum through using eight different successive operating systems on computers, as well as all the other changes which occur in 30+ years in a dynamic industry. Education is nice, but no guarantee, especially in markets driven by global commodity prices. Not even being a pioneer in the field is any guarantee of employment as job requirements are reduced to data gatherers and bottle washers.
Anyone in a job without tenure of some sort is prone to being replaced by someone who will work cheaper, who doesn't know enough to ask questions.
The second job killer (as you mentioned) is scheduling. Without a predictable schedule on one job, the other cannot be scheduled, so no second job. With Obamacare, hours are being cut, so incomes suffer.
It is my firm belief that this was part of the entire pattern of making more people dependent on Government largess, whether they wanted to be or not. If you have kids to feed you do what you must. There is no public transportation in an incredibly large part of the country, and vehicles grow more complicated and expensive every year.
The net result is to herd people into cities and distinct corridors which provide transportation: which is the essence of Agenda 21.
Whether grand conspiracy or not, all the pieces fit hand in glove to make this come about, and it will continue unless things get turned around.
I had a few years of not worrying about money (except at tax time), sadly, that period has ended. It can happen to anyone.
There ya go!!
The best ideas I have come up with were when I was stuck in a job I hated.
Another thought, I knew, ohhhhh, I dunno, at about the age of 14 that choosing a life where I had to decide between diapers and eating wasn't gonna be very fun for anyone involved. I especially considered the kid that would have had to grow up in those conditions. That was a huge pregnancy, dead beat sperm donor deterrent for me.
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