They’re getting paid not to work. Sure there are things like SS and disability, etc. that could be considered, but the overall impact is that there are millions upon millions upon millions who are settling for less. For what they get, all they have to do is go vote for it.
It’s not just in the urban environment, it’s out here in the ‘sticks’ aka rural environment. With an over 60% rate of people in my county getting ‘assistance’ of one sort or another it’s nearly heartbreaking. The school district even has free lunch for ALL students now, even those whose parents/guardians can afford the lunches.
I’m not saying in any way that this problem is strictly ‘urban’ or black or minority. There may be higher percentages of each group represented, but the overwhelming raw numbers are white people IMO.
I live in a county in north Georgia with 96% white, 1% black and 3% other (that’s Mexicans to you out of staters).
My county has 20% of its population on SNAP. If there’s that much on SNAP, then the numbers for EITC, Section 8, TANF, WICs, SSI, SSDI, etc. are comparable.
I see it in every rental trailer I pass by (you can tell by the inspection stickers), every day at Walmart, Kroger and Ingles. If you want to shop undisturbed there don’t go before 10-11:00AM. Getting up earlier than that upsets them and damages their poor little psyches.
As for SS? My wife recently had to apply and got the option to go to Marietta or Gainesville. I told her you DO NOT WANT to go to the Marietta Office. Every lowlife scum lard ass (SSDI), baby mama (SSI), decrepit foreigner (to get minimum quarter SS, there with their citizen kids) and no good jam it up. That she wouldn’t see anyone that looked like her. I told her that it would be the same in Gainesville but much less. She took my advice. First words out of her mouth when she came back? “You were 100% right.”
They are getting paid not to work. Sure there are things like SS and disability, etc. that could be considered, but the overall impact is that there are millions upon millions upon millions who are settling for less. For what they get, all they have to do is go vote for it.
It’s not just in the urban environment, it’s out here in the ‘sticks’ aka rural environment. With an over 60% rate of people in my county getting ‘assistance’ of one sort or another it’s nearly heartbreaking. The school district even has free lunch for ALL students now, even those whose parents/guardians can afford the lunches.
So many people are gaming the system. They collect every taxpayer benefit available, which keeps them from starving, and then work an off the books “all cash” job every now and then (cutting hair, babysitting, moving furniture, landscaping, home repair) that allows them to keep up with the Joneses when it comes to clothing, cellphones, etc. They have realized that they are better off under this arrangement than taking a $10.00/hour job and losing the freebies.
In some areas, they allow the students entire family to come to school to eat lunch - and even dinner - 365 days a year