Posted on 02/28/2025 11:27:02 PM PST by grundle
This is not what government programs were meant to be
“I'm 30 years old. I have four kids and I've been on welfare for 12 years”
Interviewer “Do you live in government housing?”
“Yes, since I was 18”
She then describes even more benefits she receives
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Take her off all assistance period! My taxes should not be going to able bodied people with children or not.
In the 1990s there was a 60 Minutes style show (name?) and they interviewed people who needed continuing government aid.
One teenager said his mother (and earlier his father) and older siblings have been on welfare and other funding since he was born.
Asked about his dreams of a better life someday and if he was taking advantage of partial trade school funding and job skill training programs he said “no.”
“My only goal is to get old enough to get my own welfare account. Then I can live on my own welfare instead of letting my mother boss me all he time.”
I’m sure he was one of a huge number of people on welfare for decades with attitudes like his.
I remember Paul Harvey doing a show where he said “at one time if someone went on assistance, called the dole, it was a shameful secret that the family tried to keep away from neighbors and friends knowing. If someone knew they had to take welfare and food stamps they couldn’t show their faces as they went around town. Now, the term is “entitlement” and people fiercely demand their full welfare and other payments because they deserve it -—they are entitled to it.”
Why are my taxes being giving to a brood mare??
BTTT
When my father had a heart attack and then a stroke, my mother went to nurshing school.
She used to use the food stampd in the middle of the night because she was embarassed.
She shouldn’t have been. She knew she was not going to be on them for long.
But it’s better than being proud.
This woman certainly displays no shame. 12 years, her entire adult life, living off of America's hard working tax payers. And there are millions like her dragging America down. America's "Social Safety Net" has become a hammock.
She said when she was in to schedule the appointment to have the sixth baby delivered by Cesarean, the doctor told her that they were going to “tie her tubes” while they had her opened up for the surgery. She told the doctor if he did that, she would sue him for all he all he was worth because he would be violating her rights to have as many kids as she wanted to.
The professor told everyone to stand and applaud her for being so brave.
Do you think this helping this person? Because I don’t.
She is the teacher in the new Welfare University. He children are learning everything they need to know about living off the fruits of others’ efforts - and to be vehement about the right to do it.
There are multi-generational households where no one has ever had a full time job.
Many years later, when my husband was in a head on collision and out of work for 8 months, we applied but were told to sell our daughter's new car (bought for her to commute to William Paterson College), my husband had co-signed for it. We also applied for temporary rental assistance and TWO YEARS later we were approved. Christine Todd Whitman was the governor then in NJ where it all took place. We then applied to a homelessness prevention program and were approved but had to pay it all back.
I may be wrong, but didn’t Clinton institute a program that made welfare more difficult to get? Maybe they had to actually do some kind of work to get it?
People on long-term welfare should be voluntarily sterilized to continue benefits.
This is necessary to reduce generational welfare.
Hopefully, the reduced burden on society would allow better-suited people to have more children.
Sold then to the nation -- through Democrats and RINOs then as now -- with the "goals of totally eliminating poverty and racial injustice."
Now the nation is massively in debt, "entitlements" is the same as the dole, and the poor are still with us. But the government types are now making the big bucks....
“I may be wrong, but didn’t Clinton institute a program that made welfare more difficult to get?”
I remember that the Republicans passed bills on that 3 times to try to get Clinton to sign something. Each time the bill got weaker, then Clinton signed it on the 3rd try and used it to ‘prove’ that he was tough on Welfare Queens as he coasted to re-election in 1996. Clinton played Newt and the Republicans like a fiddle on that issue.
Government housing, welfare, Medicaid etc all need to go away.
I recall the same when I was growing up. To be on welfare was nothing to be proud of. Also to be a divorcee was also something not to be proud of.
And when we were kids we could not wait to get out into the world on our own. Not only was it expected, but we willingly did it. Get that job, buy that car, have your own place to live in. It meant freedom. And in the meantime we respected our parents. Any missteps were not blamed on poor parenting by mom and dad.
There was a woman who played bingo. 20 cards, no beads,no dauber, photographic memory. What she did for a living was collect welfare.
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