Posted on 11/08/2012 8:01:29 PM PST by Typical_Whitey
Ever since I moved to the inner city one thing has puzzled me more than any other, and that is how my low-income neighbors get by. Assuming they aren't doing anything illegal, how do they afford their homes, their meals, their gadgets, their cars?
Few seem to work, even part time, for they are home in the morning when I leave for work, home if I stop by for lunch, and home when I return in the evening. They can't work the graveyard shift, for they keep me up half the night with their raucous music. I am left to conclude that they seldom, if ever work. Therefore, their funds must come from elsewhere. And none of them strike me as a trust fund baby.
The best I can figure is they make do with a patchwork of welfare programs. Besides, Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF), which expires after five years, there is housing assistance, WIC (Women, Infants and Children) and Medicaid. There are food stamps, which also can be sold in parking lots for cash, and various lesser programs, such as heating assistance.
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My daughter REALLY is disabled.
She was horribly burned, with major scarring. And, as a result of general anestheisa for major surgies, she has memory issue - her memory is shot to heck, and, literally, she can’t recognize the number eleven - though she can handle numbers to either side.
Guess what? Since I work for a living, I can’t get SSI for her. Make too much money, you see.
I really and truly hate these people both those that run SSI and those milking it.
One only gets the Justice from the Legal System that one can afford, at best.
Satan, humanists, and leftists
will always pervert good concepts around to their opposite,
where those who DO need the help won’t get it,
and those who are just in it to scam the system will not be questioned.
They sell the card, then they tell the gubmint that they lost it or had it stolen before the next month’s recharge, and get a new card.
Indeed, that's part of the problem.
The other is that nobody, it seems, is interested in actually following the constitutions. (Like the judge in this story.)
That costs extra.
Been to a Sam’s Club Lately? Yes, they too accept EBT cards as well. So while I’m using my calculator to see if I can stay in my budget and have a few extra treats, the SCAMMERS are loading up on juicy steaks.
Yeah, that drought we taxpayers are all suffering the effects of means absolutely nothing to them.
“I have seen Section 8 recipients driving much better cars than I do & with more jewelry & clothing. Fancy TV’s—you name it.”
It be dey’s RIGHT, doncha know...
Woman near me gets a 1000+ dollar rent apt., total subsidy through Section 8. HEEP, money, food stamps, Medicaid, etc. A drunk all her life.
She doesn’t really live there though as she shacks up with her boyfriend. She just needs the apt.”in case it doesn’t work out” with him.
Why the hell am I even working?
WORK HARDER, SERF....
An Obama voter needs your money!
That is depressing.
LOL you obviously haven’t been to the strip clubs lately they accept EBT too... Casinos also... This scam is destroying America.....
Here's the reality of the Obama "recovery":
http://data.bls.gov/timeseries/LNS11300000
That’s one of the great tragedies of this. There are people that REALLY need help, and should get it, but the freeloaders are going to bring everyone down because they’re gonna end up crashing the entire program with their fraud.
Please Read this:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2957570/posts
Let me know of your opinion, I persnally think this is only way to ruin the socialism’s good time...
The problem is that many people sitting on their butts for 50 to 60 years will break the system. So they're going to make up for it by having people who work for a living work until they drop.
Lowlifes get to retire at 25 years of age - and workers will get to retire at 80. Charming. Also the lowlifes will destroy the system for people who really are disabled. That's the larger crime.
All that free money and time and they're still angry. If you're unlucky 10 of them will jump you when you're walking home from your job - and kick you in the head until you wish you were dead. Charming lot.
That’s one of the great tragedies of this. There are people that REALLY need help, and should get it, but the freeloaders are going to bring everyone down because they’re gonna end up crashing the entire program with their fraud.
Then we should become the “Ultimate freeloaders” take waht we can, and then give it back to charities and truly needy people, this was the TRUE “Robin Hood”, the libs havwe perverted robin hood, he fought against the corrupt sherif and state, not the merchants...
He took from the government and gave to the poor.
He did not take from working people on the government’s behalf to then give back a small paltry sum to the poor...
Get a couple dozen EBT cards on your Church’s behalf...
Living in Philly I can relate to many of the things brought out in the four articles,with no stretch of the imagination.
Yup, and when it all falls apart they’ll scream that capitalism failed us !!! The media will go along and people will buy right into it just like they did in 2008. Hell, the Republican nominee who himself tried to stop the sub-prime loan scam on several occassions fell for it, as did our Republican president who was still in office. I still hear “conservatives” blaming wall street and greedy banks for causing this when they were forced to do it by the govt. and threatened into it by thugs like Obama’s ACORN.
The only thing that will make it tolerable in the end is the look on all these welfare queens and kings faces when the government says you have to get off your ass and work like evryone else for the good of the collective. You’ll have to work in a dirty factory, pick food, whatever we tell you and in return you’ll get the paltry share that we say is fair. Now that will be priceless.
Obamacare will explode due to “mental disorders.”
Psychiatry is such a vague pseudo-science in many respects, that these commercial psychiatrists and people cliaming various ill-defined disorders will milk the taxpayers are going to make a fortune.
People will begin claiming they are “depressed” or “bi-polar” if they don’t “Have nice things,” meaning their neighbor’s bank account.
What about the depression WE WILL FEEL, when we are left with nothing after all our very hard work and long work hours??? What about the suicides — from working hard, but not keeping your own income — or your business eventually failing DUE TO OPPRESSIVELY HIGH TAX BURDENS?
What a mess. what a scam.
We will all surely go BK thanks to the forced-transfer, Welfare ‘do-good’ state.
People need to get back to basics:
Prepare ahead, save money, buy insurance, and rely on VOLUNTARY charity -— instead of an unsustainable, rapacious, corrupt, ever-expanding immoral thieving ‘social welfare’ system.
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