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I\u2019ve been reading all the Conservative\/Republican\/Libertarian\/Heartless blogs on here of late regarding Social Security, Disability, Welfare, etc. and I\u2019ve reached the point that I\u2019ve just got to say some things. Not that I think any of you will seriously read this and comment, if you open it at all. I would have posted this on your blogs, but I didn\u2019t want to change your subjects, insult you in any way, post a TL;DR, or break some rule I forgot to pay attention to. So, I\u2019m posting this in my yard and you\u2019re all welcome to come and tell me where I\u2019m wrong. The only rules I have are that you keep it civil and somewhat of human intelligence.<\/p>\n
I\u2019ll give it to you that there are frauds and cheats in our Country, but they are within whatever system you want to discuss, private or public. Fraud and cheating are profoundly rampant in our war, corporate, banking, insurance and medical systems. I understand though that as far as any truly righteous conservative is concerned those are the things that cannot be blasphemed and need to be protected at all costs. After all, why bitch about millions\/billions of dollars of documented fraud\/waste when you can complain about thousands of dollars of possible fraud\/waste.<\/p>\n
What I need to find out is do any of you really know what the hell you are talking about when it comes to these programs? You all claim to be healthy, wealthy (as opposed to those on these programs), and wise so I doubt that you have ever had recent first-hand experience with them. Do you know anybody who is actually on any of these programs that wouldn\u2019t or doesn\u2019t lie to you? Oh, that\u2019s right, people always tell the truth when they talk about themselves and their situation in life. Especially to people they just meet somewhere out in public.<\/p>\n
I would truly like you to tell me what States you all live in or what States you are referring to in your blogs that provide these overly generous benefits you keep going on about? Each State has basic federal guidelines to follow, but then they can make their own additional rules, I suppose. It must be those States\u2019 additional rules that provide these astounding lifetime benefits. I need this information so that I can direct one of my down and out friends there so she can take advantage of this massive gravy train you keep talking about. It sure would improve her and her children\u2019s lives immensely.<\/p>\n
See she’s single with 2 kids because her man didn\u2019t want to stick around when he got her pregnant with the second child. She’s unemployed because our area currently has a 12% unemployment rate and she devoted her life to family and her man so she wasn’t trained for any high paying career. She receives no child support because frankly you can’t get blood out of a turnip. Needless to say she is now a dreaded and despised \u201cWelfare Mom\u201d.<\/p>\n
She collects all of $380.00 a month in TANF (Welfare) and an additional $400.00 a month in food stamps. Welfare also provides her with a monthly bus pass ($65.00) since she doesn\u2019t own a car. Her children are on Medicaid. Not her, just her children. She rents a (as in one for her and the kids) room from her grandmother for $100.00 a month because the list for housing assistance is just too long. Besides, grandma\u2019s house is safe. She pays for her own cell phone which is about six years old. She could get a cell phone through Welfare, but it is just a disposable cell phone that can only make voice calls and she does like to text (grandma\u2019s hard of hearing), which is free and unlimited under her cell phone plan that costs her $20.00 a month.<\/p>\n
So, let\u2019s see, she collects $845.00 in assistance from which she pays out $120.00 in expenses, for a net total of $725.00. Wow, that\u2019s a whopping $241.00 per person, per month, most of which is food stamps that can only be spent on food. Hey, I\u2019m sure with that remaining $325.00 cash a month she\u2019s just living it up even with the monetary demands of two growing kids.<\/p>\n
The basic rules of this high living assistance are as follows:<\/p>\n
1. She must spend 20 hours a week looking for a job or be enrolled full time in some type of schooling that will lead to a job;<\/p>\n
2. She must provide time sheets, with telephone confirmation of each entry by her case worker, proving her hours;<\/p>\n
3. She must attend her monthly meetings with the program office;<\/p>\n
4. She must document her need for assistance every six months;<\/p>\n
5. Her benefits expire after two years, but she can seek additional benefits after one year off, if necessary. The total lifetime benefit available is five years overall; and<\/p>\n
6. If and when her jackass man should pay her any child support, she must give most of it up to the Welfare Department until such time as they are repaid for giving her this assistance.<\/p>\n
Now, to me, the amount of assistance she collects and the rules under which she collects it, don\u2019t sound anything like what you all keep ragging on about. It must be my State, I tell you. Cheap ass bastards!<\/p>\n
Anyway, she tried to get a job during the first six months, but as I said with 12-14% unemployment, that was impossible. So she decided to go to school. She applied for a PELL grant and a student loan. She is scheduled to graduate in December and hopefully she will obtain gainful employment shortly after because she will have reached her two year limit and will then have a student loan payment to pay in addition to losing her grand benefits. See what I mean, Welfare here wouldn\u2019t even pay for her school supplies, let alone her tuition.<\/p>\n
So, since your States (or the States of your blogs) must have a much more generous Welfare system than my State, please tell me which ones they are. That way, if her gamble on education doesn\u2019t pay off we can help her with a car wash or possibly a bake sale (before she runs out of her food stamps, of course) to raise the money to move her there so she can take advantage of the train of unbridled delights of which you all so often speak.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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