In 1 Out Of Every 5 American Families, Nobody Has A Job

TEC ^ | 04/27/2016 | Michael Snyder

[SamAdams76]

I just can't imagine. I've been working since I was 14 years old (paper route) and have never been unemployed in the 40 years since. My grown sons have also known constant employment since the age of 16.

I have never been without a job and can't imagine what it is like to sit around at home all day. Five hours from now I wake up and get back on the train and commute back to Manhattan. Pretty much from 5:30 am to 7:30pm I am away from home working. Except weekends and holidays.

How do people not work? Is welfare and food stamps that lucrative?

[digger48]

Someone took a look at the extended family of a cop killer in Indy a couple years back and found they were playing the Freebie system like a fiddle.

http://www.theindychannel.com/news/call-6-investigators/accused-cop-killers-family-connected-to-housing-fraud

All of them living off of defrauding you and me.

[Mears]

Astonishing.

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[sheana]

I worked for our welfare dept for years. I started out as an account clerk in Food Stamps and then became an eligibility worker for MediCal.
I sat down and figured out one day that between a full time babysitter, gas, clothing, food, etc. I was bringing home almost nothing. The welfare clients were better off than me. I quit and went back to tending bar at night so I could go to school during the day. Got my bachelor’s in Bus Ad with a concentration in accounting and never looked back.

[bgill]

Yep, there you are. We work our tails off not for our own families but for theirs.