what is wrong with Americans today? Or is it me?

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If someone was handing out free money would you get in line?
Even if your pockets were full of money already?
That's what we do in America....Hand out free money.
People come from all over to get some.Every part of the world.
They overshadow the true Americans that this system was put in place to assist.
Good Americans do exist we are just buried under the junk that rapes our system.Once they all go home with their full
pockets we will still be here picking up the pieces.
 
To correct some misconceptions


Getting on welfare and/or disability are not easy tasks. There is a lot of paperwork to fill out and proof to provide. You will be fingerprinted and those fingerprints used to determine if you are abusing the system.

Actual abuse of the system is a lot more rare than folks like to claim.

So you see a fancy car in the welfare parking lot. It's paid off. So, I should sell it and not be able to find a job just because I need a couple months of assistance? So you see a fancy car in the welfare parking lot. Gee, I'm grateful my friend who is doing better than I am was willing to give me a ride in. So, you see a fancy car in the welfare parking lot. That's cause I borrowed it cause the public transportation system stinks.

Some people had some nice things before getting down on their luck. Though these things are often expensive to buy, they often have no resale value whatsoever. A computer that someone paid $1500 for might fetch $50 at a yard sale. An ipod someone paid $300 for might fetch $15. A previously paid for cell phone can be used with a prepaid card, so why get rid of it, especially as a lot of people do away with land lines nowadays?

Drive by your welfare office and you will see, in clear language, posted everywhere, the number to call if you suspect fraud.

But keep in mind your 'evidence' of fraud may just be based on your misunderstanding of a situation.

I wore nice clothes when I was homeless. It's amazing what you can find at yard sales and goodwill. I saved up for nice shoes because it made more sense to me to purchase a $50 pair that would last five years than a $15 pair that would last less than a year. I had a cell phone. It was my only phone and the only way I could be reached. If you saw me in the assistance line, you'd see a well-groomed woman in nice clothes with sensible shoes, with a cell phone. You'd probably assume I was scamming the system. I was probably on my way to a job interview after my appointment with my social worker.

I was on assistance for a few months. I suppose I could have done without it. I could have gotten into manufacturing and retail. I was always good at chemistry. I could have turned quite the profit making and selling meth. Would you have preferred I take that path?

What was it a certain wise man once said?

Judge not, that ye be not judged


And then there is what I say:

May you always be treated with the compassion you show to others.
 
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Nobody is talking about people that need temporary assistance, just the career abusers. My own sister is one. Turning her in won't work because she can just tell the government that she has no job to support herself. She hasn't looked for one in 20 years, but she has no job. A young person that my daughter knows was engaged to be married. She got pregnant. Now the wedding is off because as a single mother, she can get medacaid, welfare and a free college education. If she just married the boyfriend, he would be able to support them all, but this whole government assistance thing is just too good of deal to pass up. The boyfriend is still around but the taxpayers will be supporting his kid and girlfriend. What a great deal! My daughter told her that it was dishonest and like stealing. they aren't friends anymore. There are a lot of people like that.
 
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Tell me about how long it takes....it took over three years for my husband's paperwork for medical retirement and another two for his VA. But I have watched women switched kids in the parking lot at the welfare office, change the kids clothes and walk in with him for their assistance face to face meetings. It is BS. There are people collecting welfare that were born into the system and have never worked a day in their lives.
 
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How about I blame them both? One for being stupid an too generous with other people's money, and the other for being so lazy they look for the easy way out. It's quite a symbiotic relationship. The bureaucrats wouldn't have a job without the deadbeats, and the deadbeats wouldn't get a free ride without the bureaucrats.

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You wernt abusing the systyem were you? Then i have no problem with you. If the cell phone was your ONLY phone line..then i say thats fine also.
As for compassion...you wont find a person with more than i have, and anyone that knows me will tell you the same ....what i DONT have though, is tolerence for liars and cheats and system mooches.
Also, karma is a &itch,....i firmly believe these people will get it in the end...
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What they sow today, will be what they reep someday.
 
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Not too hard in mass.
I have a brother whom was on state healthcare and reciving food stamps all while owning 2 ya I said 2 multfamily houses collecting rent from both.
I don't think anyone is saying some people do not need assistance.They were talking about a broken system that allows abuse.
It is hard to have compassion when you work every day and others that are fully able and don't.
 
A country that makes people feel entitled turns into a country with no initiative.
 
remember too though that the person not working and having aid.....and is abusing the system and they can work etc.--
they usually don't have anything owned even close to what a hard working person has.

a hard working person usually can afford alot more things than the person just living off the system.


not saying it is right, just that it is.


example is a sister of an acquaintance
lives in an old single wide trailer
3 kids---2 from 1 dad, 1 from another
never married
second dad around somewhat
she gets tons and tons of free aid
can she work--yes she is young and strong
can she get babysitting service--yup, her grandma said she would help her while she worked and sit the kids
she never took grandma up on it cause she never wants to work


but she has nothing truly.......
and she will never truly have anything----free money to keep her trapped right there.

it is sad. no aspirations to work very hard to call something you strive for in life, her dreams, etc. will never be realized.


free money is not all that great....what you get could just keep you exactly where you are and never strive to go farther.

I work very hard for what I have. And if I want more I work harder and find ways to fund my dreams.


just chatting..LOL
 
You wouldn't imagion how much I wish I didn't need the assistance of SSI, foodstamps, WIC, else. We are trying other ways to make money to support ourselves and our kids. Im on SSI cuz I am fully 100% deaf, hubby is NOT on SSI even though he is hard of hearing. Our daughter is supposed to get SSI based on the fact that she is Deaf as well. Hubby and I already made an agreement that when the baby is 6 weeks old, I will start looking for work, all kids will be in school and daycare. Hubby should be going back to work real soon, he has an appointment on Monday to find out rather or not he can go back. They still don't know what is wrong with him but they said possibly his heart, his liver or something, they dont' know.
 
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