Posted on 12/17/2010 6:10:38 AM PST by magellan
When Eugene Jenkins showed up at St. Paul AME Church at 1:30 a.m. Wednesday, he didn’t know he would be one of the last people to get a ticket for assistance with his heating bill.
He waited in line until 7 a.m., when officials started to hand out the tickets, then went home for a few hours before returning at 10 a.m. By the time he had finished up his paperwork, it was 1:15 p.m., making for a long day.
Jimmie Samuel, executive director of the agency, said the need for assistance in Bibb County has spiked, while the available funds to fill those needs have been slashed.
That’s left people such as Raymeica Kelley frustrated. Kelley said she, her mother and her sister arrived at the church about 3 a.m. Wednesday, only to get turned away.
Kelley said she was unemployed for a year before recently landing a job. But her bills have stacked up while she was unemployed, and she needs the assistance.
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I don’t have a HD flat screen tv but I’m so happy to have been able to sacrifice and deprive my children for her to have one.
Not!
I thought Obama promised to pay our rent, heating, and buy us all a pony?
We reward them for making poor choices. We are enablers.
If we cut off the gravy train these lardbutts would be out working. Instead they are standing for hours in a handout line and sobbing to the media.
The TV stand alone probably cost $150 or so. The stands for those really big TV’s are pretty expensive.
We see this all the time in our line of work. We have been in subsidized housing projects to work on radiant heat panels or do minor electrical work, and find that the collection of video games laying around would be a year salary of what my kids get, we see HUGE television sets, blue ray players in several rooms of the apartment, etc.
But no cookware, no books on the walls, etc.
Priorities I guess.
You can’t help wonder if the photographer deliberately included the TV and the x-box controller in the picture to reduce the sympathy this parasite would receive.
She ain’t starvin. Let me say as a white man I’m sorry, sorry, sorry.
Why doesn’t she just get in bed and pull up the covers until spring arrives. I don’t imagine she does anything productive anyway.................she can lie about watching that wonderful big screen tv.........
Worked or starved. Not that this welfare queen looks like she's close to starving.
I’m in MN. Lives a few summers in GA. Just curious, how many people have ever froze to death there?
In the comments section, there is a user specifically saying that a white man set her up. In the most hideous grammer possible. It should also be noted that the leech in question has a facebook page, now secured, where she talked about her new hair and getting a weave and other goodies. Posted from her iphone.
Well if she didn't have a big screen TV, an x-box and satellite receiver no could have "set her up." So does the fault lie with the person who showed her up for being a parasite or with her for being a parasite?
(in the interests of full disclosure I bought a flat screen TV -$700 - three weeks ago in the Black Friday madness to replace an old ailing tube type TV that I'd had for many years. BUT I receive NO welfare - not even social security although I'm old enough to collect I still work full time )
That is really telling.
Maybe it is by design. Maybe these consequences of the welfare state are intended consequences, not unintended consequences.
We hear about urban "food deserts". Maybe the urban poor stopped buying uncooked food before the supermarket left, not the other way around.
As I understand it, the National School Lunch Program benefits are not deducted from Food Stamps. So if you have kids in school, each kid is in essence overpaid in food stamps by about 1/3rd. Which means more money for potato chips and Little Debbie snack cakes.
It's interesting to watch the EBT card people divide their stuff in the grocery checkout. The big bags of dog food and beer go separate from the food (which always seems to consist of the best cuts of meat)
If you're on welfare you have no business owning a pet (unless it's a cockroach or a rat)
Don't know the stats, but it does get cold here. Last week it was 15F overnight and never rose above freezing for a couple of days. Today it's 41. You won't freeze, but can get mighty uncomfortable.
Churches should not be conduits of government largesse to all comers. They should be providing for the genuine needs of their own members out of their own charity, *and* teaching the congregants to live by Biblical principles.
I'm a trustee at my church, you wouldn't believe the number of calls we get from people who do not attend our church or even live anywhere near it. They ask for food and money for utility bills, rent, house payments, car payments, you name it.
They are told that we don't have the resources to help everyone so we stick to helping our own members. We do have plenty of our own who are truly needy and we help them.
Some people actually get angry at us because we are a church and the church is supposed to "help people".
We got a report from our school district a few months ago, and I’ll tell you, we are NOT in a poor area, nor a wealthy area, just middle class.
Anyways, according to the district report, about 70% of all students were on assisted lunch programs.
Our kids brown sack it. Early in the week we plan our meals for their lunches, so we might make a ham on sunday, then they have ham sammiches, leftover chicken = chicken salad, leftover meatloaf, meatloaf sammiches. You know... how I thought most folks did it, how my folks did it.
Now, when I go into the lot to pick up my kids, I see new cars, fancy cars, my kids friends all have every game system out there and tons of games, big TV’s, they vacation to nice places every year (we have a run down mobile home, in the woods up in the UP where they tent it, and mom and dad sleep in the old leaky mobile home), they’re friends wear the latest Uggs shoes (our kids wear whatever is on sale), etc, but 70% of them are on assisted food programs? I don’t understand it.
Isn’t there some income verification or something? It just struck me that the majority of these folks were just gaming the system.
It’s like I’m the last one in on “the joke”, as if, “if you are not on assistance you are a dumbass”.
$275 a cord?
Ouch.
It’s half that in Michigan.
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