Posted on 09/19/2012 12:15:19 PM PDT by grundle
It’s not “cruel”, let’s call it “an incentive to get off the dole”.
You’re probably onto some thing that goes against your argument: those who feel the shame and stigma are those who wouldn’t be using them if th ey had an alternative.
I predict that should Romney win, the State Run Media will suddenly “discover” all of these problems, and more, and promptly begin declaring them all a result Romney’s Depression. For proof, they will point to their own lack of reporting on said problems during Obama’s regime (”Well, if had been there, we would’ve told you!”) I predict this will happen within 6 weeks of inauguration.
If you drive through rural Alabama, Georgia and elsewhere, you’ll still see these public housing units (separate or duplexes) made of concrete with three or four rooms. All built in the late 60s throughout the 70s.
They’re in little enclaves around the local towns. We still have 4 of these enclaves in my town - still used.
I had a scary thought occur this morning.
If 0bama loses in 2012, he’s eligible in 2016.
Rev 13:3
One of the heads of the beast seemed to have had a fatal wound, but the fatal wound had been healed. The whole world was astonished and followed the beast.
Probably true, but it doesn’t go against my argument. I have NEVER seen one that has shame or tries to hide an EBT card’s use. They are blatant and uncaring about it. Conclusion? They aren’t people who hit a string of bad luck, they’re leeches.
I've seen middle-aged white guys working as janitors and in car washes.
Kevin DeJuan has a boyfriend? I didn’t know....
Anyway, my sign of the Depression is that my son, his fiancee, and all but a handful of their friends who graduated college in the past two years are either unemployed or seriously under-employed.
Paul Ryan really needs to keep pounding his statement about “the twenty-somethings still living in their childhood bedrooms, staring at the faded 0bama poster on the wall, wondering when they can get on with their lives.” It’s true; many families are living this reality NOW.
Oh, I would tweak Ryan’s comment to end with the statement”
“...wondering when they can get with on PAYING THE STAGGERING DEBT 0BAMA HAS LEFT THEM.”
Interesting...
I guess, then, that the author of the article is homosexual, and has written this article that is inherently critical of 0bama and overtly critical of the media.
So it would seem.
Lowe’s built a brand new store here. In two years it was closed down. The new building sits empty and boarded up. Across the street a lot was cleared for a new Super Walmart. The builder’s office is still there, but there has been no progress. There are unfinished commercial buildings still sitting since the crash.
The thing that always bothered me is “why don’t plenty more of our teens actually like working at stores other than Wal-Mart?” Some work schedules at stores other than Wal-Mart actually are pretty generous in their schedules by comparison. I worked for a local supermarket, and the latest I could eve be made to work was around 11:30p.m., and the earliest was at 8:30a.m., and there even was the option as an employee to sign off one day out of the week as “unavailable”, thinking in religious terms, this meant that you could take off whatever day was considered the “sabbath” according to your religion that week. I would have bothered with Wal-Mart, but after the local supermarket took me in, I took the job, and enjoyed it for the reasons which I just mentioned, especially the leniency that they allowed in work days.
Anyway, my sign of the Depression is that my son, his fiancee, and all but a handful of their friends who graduated college in the past two years are either unemployed or seriously under-employed.
I was in such a situation when I was approaching thirty years old. I was a graduate with a Master’s Degree, but I ended up working bags and cash register, as well as deli and seafood, depending on the day and the shift at a local supermarket chain. This was two years ago, sad part is, plenty of other people in my family, including my little sister, nieces, and nephews, are still in the situation I was in.
Well, the good news is, God does work in mysterious ways, and eventually, I got a job in agricultural research, and met my wife during that time of underemployment from 2009 to 2010.
I totally agree that Ryan should bring up the point of the twenty-somethings right now, it needs to be emphasized, and can’t be expounded enough, IMHO.
There’s plenty of disturbing facts on the price enacted on the current populace right now, what’s also more disturbing is how close to half don’t pay income tax, in fact, while the Average American has gotten more wealthy, less and less of the population pay federal income tax. With the U.S. population growing all that time. If you ask me, that doesn’t look so promising for the deficit, national debt, or future inflation. Even more rediculous is the fact that supposedly the Democratic slogan was, up until the early 2000s, to reduce our budget and work on paying off the national debt. I guess some people are now disappointed that even with dominance in Congress, they don’t seem to bother even fulfilling that promise.
Two years ago for the first time in my life I had to go on unemployment. The payment was just enough to cover my mortgage so I once a month withdrew the total amount off the card that Indiana issues and made the deposit in my account.
I was so ashamed I drove myself clear across town to another branch that I never used and slunk in when they were dead slow to do it. I felt lower than whale sh*t, to be honest it was the lowest point of my life I think, and that was withdrawing from a system I had paid into for damn near 30 years. I see these women using WIC or food stamps in line at Walmarts every time I’m there buying complete crap and then I just imagine the outcry if that system is ever interrupted someday.
I weep for my kids and what they will have to deal with when they are my age.
Average age of cars on the road nearly eleven years old - a record.
I wonder how many car accidents occur as a result of the many decaying vehicles traveling on US roads.
I don’t think anyone here faults you for that. You’re not in the category that at least I’m complaining about. While I’ve not seen people who are obviously ashamed, I think I’d understand and know it if I saw it. As I said, in my town, there sure as heck aren’t any like that here. Multigenerational is what I’d classify them as.
You are right, when the ball comes down, these people will riot. And, if the riots aren’t put down and these people made to go to work, your children and my grandchildren will be in for some rough times.
Best of luck to you and I hope your situation is better now.
You know, I hope you and Gaffer never have the humiliation nor the need to be on the dole, but the fact remains, times are tough, and I refuse to judge others unless one is willing to walk in their shoes! Yeah, the system is abused and it needs to be fixed, but I am glad there is a system for those families and their kids who had the rug pulled out from under them by the Obama administration and Bush Jr’s reckless handling of the economy! While those who caused this mess due to sheer greed were saved by stimulus, the real victims are those families who lost their jobs or careers!
(caution: contains foul language)
The best fertility drugs in America are WIC vouchers and EBT cards.
The article was talking about Americans, Proud to Be Patriot Working Americans, now forced into squalor by 0pansy and his commie redistribution crap.
I have a fistfull of friends that are facing this now. They are so proud, yet hungry, that when I send them a basket of some ‘yummies’, they fight with me like dogs to reject my gift.
However, I always win. I win by simply asking the question, “...would you not do the same for me and my family...”. That phrase gets them, and they become a bit quiet. Further, that's when I give a hug and just before I leave, I tell them, I plan to never to discuss these issues with them again.
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