Gonz said:
Did you, your mother &/or your brother decide that welfare was better than working? Or, did you decide that there are better ways & work to get out of that trap? Are you scum or are you able to lift yourself up by the bootstraps & do what is necessary to support you &/or your family?
My choice of words seems awfully provocative. Do you (any of you) have something to feel guilty about? If you aren't scum, then you aren't who I'm talking about.
You need to think before you stereotype an enire group of people because they are going through hard times. Not everyone on welfare is leaching the government, and thus tax payers, because they WANT to.
Do you think being on welfare is glamorus? Do you think my Mom liked feeding her two sons Hamburger Helper (sans the hamburger) four nights a week? Oh, and just so you know, she WAS working, in a cheese factory as I stated before. (Most people on the dole work. Most are single mothers with an average of two kids.) The job did not pay her enough to feed her two children, get us the state-required immunizations, clothe us, pay rent, pay bills, gas for a Ford Escort that may or may not start on a January morning in Wisconsin.
My Mom now has 6 kids with one on the way, he was actually due on Sunday. Typical, right? Someone taking advantage of the welfare system by having kid after kid to get more money. Five more kids who get to eat ketchup sandwhiches just so she won't have to work?
Things aren't always as simple as you want them to be. People on welfare are not scum. I don't have anything to feel guilty about. Somehow I have a feeling that your cold heart and smug, hollier-than-thou attitude won't believe me.
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