It’s sad that all of those stereotypes are true, but they are.
I volunteer for an organization that provides school supplies and clothes to single parent families and also gathers donations for Christmas gifts to needy families. My mother is the head of the organization.
During the course of the year, you could count on two hands the number of people looking for help, but when those two events come around near the end of the year, the termites come out of the woodwork en masse!
I’ll never forget last year: a black woman comes in with 5 kids, all dressed in ratty clothes and shoes that are falling apart. Meanwhile, mom pulled up in a 2009 Mercedes (leased, according to her), hair all done up nice, new shoes and dress, long manicured nails, and jewelry just dripping from everywhere she could put a bauble.
We helped out the kids as best we could, but the mother still had the nerve to come up to me and say, “This all you got?” pointing to the table full of “give aways.” I told her that was all we could afford to give for her family. So what does she do? She goes around the table, grabs 2 more backpacks full of school supplies and starts to walk out.
My mother, the old Scottish broad she is, stood right in front of the woman at the door and demanded she put down the backpacks and leave. She made such a stink that we had to call the police; meanwhile her kids are sitting there quiet and well-behaved. Quite the role model, eh?
UPDATE:
Summary on released sample of the special. Communist Worker’s paradise. In all communist countries, the transition to collective farming involved an element of persuasion by force, and the collective farms in these countries, lacking the principle of voluntary membership, can be regarded at best as pseudo-cooperatives. In the Soviet Union, collectivization was introduced by Joseph Stalin in the late 1920s as a way, according to the theories of socialist leaders, to boost agricultural production through the organization of land and labor into large-scale collective farms (kolkhozy). It is supposed to serve many goals of communist indoctrination. Collective work, reliance on the group rather than the individual, etc. Stalin resorted to implementation of the plan by mass murder and wholesale deportation of farmers to Siberia. Millions of unfortunates who remained also died of starvation, and the centuries-old system of farming was destroyed in one of the most fertile regions in the world for farming, once called “the breadbasket of Europe”. Weeee Look what we have to look forward to.
Sample “Lily” script:
Elmo:Elmo didn’t know
Lily: When you don’t even know whether your going to have a next meal or not, well that can be pretty hard
Elmo: We’ll how Lily know so much about this
Lily: Well because sometimes I go with my family to the food pantry
Lily: Yeah I get breakfast and lunch for free at my school, thats two whole meals a day.
Unk: I have some great food here for the food drive