What is this thread all about?
Just a place for general discussion. A place to unload whats on your mind and talk about anything - personal, health, help needed, achievements, daily highs and daily lows, theories, predictions and what have you.
Does not need to be Q related.
When I was in line at the grocery store the man in front of me had a total bill of $137.00. He paid $20.00 in cash the remainder was paid by us, the taxpayer, food stamps. I’m old school I know they have a new name but let’s call it what it really is. He looked to be at least in his forties and didn’t look like he’d washed his hair recently. I know appearances shouldn’t come into factor. The government assistance needs to be stopped so people will work. My nephew hasn’t worked since he graduated high school and he’s twenty three. He & his baby mama lives with my brother. She doesn’t work either and is probably getting assistance for the baby. I don’t get this mentality. I don’t want anything for free especially a hand out. I feel bad if my dad or in laws pay for my meal. (I understand if someone physically can’t work due to health reasons or have a mental condition preventing them from working) I don’t understand laziness!
I get where you are coming from. I'm also on government assistance and yes I should be working, but the problem with that is we get a good chunk from the gov't that last a month for us.
The reason why my wife and I are on gov't assistance is because we're deaf and also because we have a hard time finding a job due to discrimination. I went to college and graduated with Bachelor's in I.T. but unfortunately none of the employers want to hire me. I've applied to over 700 jobs and went on maybe 3 interviews so far.
Right now I'm probably considered too old and probably too white to work at a D.E.I. company and I have yet to start my career since graduating from college.
I've had a job but the problem with that job I was working at (at a retail store fixing computers) is that the pay wasn't great and I've had ONE single pay increase in 5 years. I even applied to become an assistant manager, but home office said because I'm deaf, that is impossible for me to be one due to my inability to speak verbally with the customers.
After 5 years, I had to quit because we were expecting our child and given our financial situation, it was impossible for us to live off my income. We were even struggling to live off on my income before the baby came. While my wife is deaf, she also can't work due to some other physical issues so I'm the only one capable of working.
Because of that, that would mean I have to get two, maybe three jobs to be able to support my family. The gov't assistance we get monthly, pays off everything we need to pay per month plus food and at the end of the month, we would be almost broke but at least we're not broke after the 1st week or two, if we had to rely on my income from my previous job. I would estimate the amount we get per month from assistance equals two jobs, maybe three "blue collar" jobs? It's a real sad state we are in right now.
Right now I would love to work as I've always envisioned myself working for a corporate, servicing and maintaining their infrastructure and all but like I said, I applied to over 700 jobs and none of them want to hire me, despite my co-workers from my recent job saying I will have no problems landing a job because I'm too good at what I do. I even got awards commending my performance (4 years in a row) and apparently that isn't enough to prove my worth with the companies I've applied to.
Discrimination is real and it's a long story for me to get into. I can PM you if you're still interested in learning more about this but it really pisses me off that I can't work in my dream career field because I grew up with computers (since 7 years old and I'm in my 40's now).
Even I'm not the only deaf professional struggling to find a job in the corporate world, a lot of my friends from the college I attended, are deaf and they also are struggling to find jobs due to discrimination. This is why I see "Diversity, Equity and Inclusion" as a bullshit gimmick to show that they're woke. Sure, they can hire people in wheelchairs but they won't hire deaf people and blind people because it would be too much for them to handle.
I know you said you understand those who are physically incapable of working but for me, I CAN work. The problem is the $$$. I've been told I should be working but when I explained our financial situation with $$$, they understood why I wasn't looking for a job because it's not financially sound.
This is why I voted and support President Trump because he's the one who can fix this shitty economy we're in, on top of everything.
Yes you do have an excellent point on people being too lazy and live off welfare while they should be working because they're disrupting the balance of the economy. I've seen some people posting on social media, showing their receipt where they bought a lot of food (about a thousand dollars worth) and still have $2,000 leftover for the month. We do not even get food stamps so how tf are they getting food stamps?! Illegal aliens and uh... people of the darker complexion comes to mind on the reason behind this.
I might not have been clear. I don’t believe everyone getting assistance from the government is bad. The American society doesn’t take care of their families like many other countries. I don’t want to live anywhere else but I highly respect the cultures where the children take care of their parents or other family members. If you truly need assistance there nothing wrong with that. Many people with serious medical conditions might be homeless if assistance or SS disability wasn’t available. Blessings to you and your family.
God does not reward laziness. You don’t work, you don’t eat. I understand that there circumstances to each situation and I am sad for people that can’t get help they deserve because all the lazy people are milking the system. God has his way of taking care of thieves.
Amen!
Well check this out.. my friend who's very well to do and owned his own company, a brownstone in the city and a vacation home in the hamptons.. his parents in law, who are even wealthier, owned a nice million dollar house in Massachusettes.. they get food stamps. We were like WTF.. they're the kind of people who milked the system to the core, have no shame.. meanwhile my in laws, who are struggling, refuse to ever go on food stamps. To them that is stooping to a new low. I'm the same way. I'd rather die than be a beggar. Maybe it's pride and honor.
Sadly that doesn’t surprise me. I love it when people like that go down. I used to watch The Chrisley’s reality tv show and actually liked it. Only reality show I’ve ever watched. As soon as I heard about the husband and wife being investigated for federal bank fraud and tax evasion I stopped watching. Those two are now going to jail. They both are going to jail. When I read that I thought, “finally someone’s doing the time for their crime.
Welfare Queen !
Good points and info. I’m ok without a source because I can do my own research.
"the welfare state is just one prong at removing man's self-esteem/certainty/etc - just as education based on not teaching thinking but rather obedience does. All leads to dependence on handouts etc."
YES!
There is an entire generation that has had their critical thinking skills and individual drive beaten out of them. The result, a dependent, social rule following generation, effectively disabled. They are suffering a need for purpose. I believe this is why so many of them jump on the social justice bandwagon - from just a need to attach to something for purpose. No drive to work, create, build. To me, it is heartbreaking.
Too many people just randomly having children with no means to support them, is the drain. Even before birth control was available, somehow many families were not started until there was some form of security start a family. People laughed at the Catholics because of lack of family planning in one way or another, and yes, my best friend in elementary school had an enormous family, the father worked as a laborer, and they were "poor" by neighborhood standards, and the size of the family was unusual to me. Obviously other adults who were married , and those who were not, figured out how to not get pregnant. Pregnancy became a way to assure government subsidies in the 70', if I recall, and, with the moral decline and the "free love" trend, there was no more stigma to out of wed lock pregnancies. Right now, you have homeless people getting knocked up. I think social security is a good thing, I paid into it, however, right now, if my son was not here to help, I would probably avail myself to such things as meals on wheels, stopping all my streaming services, which are a luxury, and some of the help they give seniors for fuel bills, etc. I could also rent out rooms. From young adulthood, I always had a detailed plan for survival, non of which included "going on welfare." I chose to have a child with my husband at the time, after both of us had an income and we had a small homestead. He left when I was 6 months pregnant, (I had a bad habit of finding men with potential, I was attracted to potential). I was working up until the last month, and my job had insurance, so I was able to have my baby, and had accrued enough sick and vacation time to stay home with him for almost a full year. There was no child support, his father flew the coop and left little hints as to where he went, I still do not know, my guess is that he is in Canada somewhere, he had dual citizenship, probably dead from alcohol and drugs at this point. But my point is, even with doing everything right, there I was, pregnant and alone. But, I never got pregnant again, I did not use my body as a welfare check.
“I had a bad habit” …
“doing everything right, there I was”
Incongruent
I realized , with maturity, my errors in my choice of men, I was doing everything right morally speaking, in comparison to what the social norms would have allowed at that time. I waited for marriage, I was married when I became pregnant, I was settled, sober, and believed in my husband. It was later, after blaming myself and seeking council , both through AA and my Pastor, I came to the realization I had a tendency to be attracted to people's potential, instead of what they actually did do.