Unless you have lived under a rock for the past 10 years then you have heard someone complaining about people on welfare. If you have a facebook you probably see or read something daily about it.
I try to ignore the rude and down right uneducated remarks people make and the pictures that they share. I often wonder how many people feel bullied and belittled by these types of things shared on social media. Can you imagine how you might feel if you were one of the most hated people in America. lets face it above all the Politicians , The KKK , The confederate flag , and even Gay and lesbians who want to get married People on welfare are not only hated the most but have to endure the most judgmental accusing hate of all.
No matter their color. No matter their religious belief. No matter their sexual orientation They all hate people on welfare. Even people on welfare hate people who receive more welfare.
There is two different types of welfare social welfare and corporate welfare ( corporate subsidies) .
social welfare -
SNAP - A food and Nutrition program better known as Foodstamps provides food assistance to 23 million households
Housing Assistance - A program (HUD) that provides rental assistance and public housing
SSI - For disabled or blind people under the age of 65.
Pell Grants - assistance for 9.2 million (2012) college students from low income homes.
TANF - Cash assistance to low income homes . Most states have a job requirement to receive.
Free and Reduced school lunches Provides free or reduced breakfast and lunch to 2.5 million school age children
Head Start - A preschool program
Job Training programs
WIC- provides nutritional services to 8.7 million pregnant women and children under the age of 5.
Child Care Services - Free or reduced child care costs for low income homes. Most states require at least one month employment before receiving assistance
LIHEAP - provides assistance with heating costs to low income homes
Lifeline Better known as the Obama Phone,started off in 1986 to provide assistants with phone services and then later free or reduced Cell phones for low income homes.
Medicaid health and medical services for 40 million families with low incomes and few resources.
So when you hear people talking about the people on Welfare they are talking about 1/3 of Americans who receive some type of assistance .
You have to work hard everyday because you have bills to pay and if every single person was kicked off of welfare you would still have to work just as hard to pay your bills. The only way to not work hard would be for you to manipulate the system so that you can receive assistants yourself.
You don't have an IPhone because you have bad credit or you are not eligible for an upgrade with your cellphone provider yet. because most phone companies have iPhones for a $ .99 with 2 year contract or updated contract. Neither one of those reasons are effected by people who receive welfare.
Welfare Queen, Kid popping Peggy , Lazy Larry, Foodstamp Tramp, Jobless Joe Whatever you call them They are in fact still people!
Heck I would rather Lazy Larry get my tax dollar Then it be sent to some other country, big oil or GM . Corporate welfare is the problem .
I like how everyone who bitches about welfare fails to mention how JP Chase Morgan has a contract to manage EBT cards in 21 states and made more than a half a billion dollars between 2012 and 2014 off those contracts.
New York alone paid $0.95 per month per each of its 1.7 million users to JP Chase with your tax dollar and people think that Jobless Joe is the problem!
New York alone paid $0.95 per month per each of its 1.7 million users to JP Chase with your tax dollar and people think that Jobless Joe is the problem!
Foodstamps is the only time you see your tax dollar come back into your community and each dollar spent on Food stamps generates $1.70 in local economy activity .
Those tax dollars which cost the average tax payer about 10 cents a day that are used for Food stamps pumped 2.43 billion dollars into my states economy in 2012. Many small mom and pop stores wouldn't even be open today if it weren't for their foodstamp using costumers. Many small business would have to shut their doors or lay employees off if it weren't for their products being bought with foodstamps.
In 2012 the average tax payer who made 50 thousand dollars a year paid $36 into Social welfare programs and $6,000 corporate subsidies to big business . Yet single mom Sally is the problem?
Tell me any other program where you get to see your tax dollar come back into your area?
We can't even argue about planned parenthood because so many people would rather pay to kill a baby than to feed a baby. I see people post anti abortion stuff all day long then turn right around and say stop popping out kids if you can't support them and I wonder do you want them to have the baby or not???
Shit I say give lying Larry and kid popping Peggy their food stamps cause I would rather see my neighbor eating steaks than I would see another politician take a golf trip on my tax dollar or GM get another bailout while they use their personal jets to pick up the check!
Those tax dollars which cost the average tax payer about 10 cents a day that are used for Food stamps pumped 2.43 billion dollars into my states economy in 2012. Many small mom and pop stores wouldn't even be open today if it weren't for their foodstamp using costumers. Many small business would have to shut their doors or lay employees off if it weren't for their products being bought with foodstamps.
In 2012 the average tax payer who made 50 thousand dollars a year paid $36 into Social welfare programs and $6,000 corporate subsidies to big business . Yet single mom Sally is the problem?
Tell me any other program where you get to see your tax dollar come back into your area?
We can't even argue about planned parenthood because so many people would rather pay to kill a baby than to feed a baby. I see people post anti abortion stuff all day long then turn right around and say stop popping out kids if you can't support them and I wonder do you want them to have the baby or not???
Shit I say give lying Larry and kid popping Peggy their food stamps cause I would rather see my neighbor eating steaks than I would see another politician take a golf trip on my tax dollar or GM get another bailout while they use their personal jets to pick up the check!
So everyone is mad over the people on welfare who don't pay taxes but drive big new SUVs and have iphones . When they bought that SUV they paid sales tax on it . If they are making payments on it they are paying taxes on it. If they live in my state they are paying a yearly property tax on it. When they bought that cell phone they paid taxes on it when they pay their monthly bills they are paying taxes. Nobody except politicians get to live tax free solely off of your tax dollars
When you complain about people on welfare you are not talking to the small percent of people who abuse the system you are talking to your neighbor who used Pell Grants to be a nurse. You are talking to your blind friend who receives SSI . You are talking to a family who doesn't know any other way. You are talking to half of your community and making them feel worse than they already do.
No this wasn't politically correct and my grammar is even worse but my point is clear stop judging people!!!!
Imagine waking up tomorrow and not knowing how you are going to feed your family. Maybe you lost your job or you over spent and now you have no money for groceries Your kids are hungry and the cabinets are bare what do you do? Do you think one single person who hates welfare is going to offer to buy your groceries or help you in any way? No they are only going to point fingers at you and tell you how you don't deserve to be a parent if you cant feed your kids. They are going to tell you how you should have thought about that before having sex. They will call you lazy and tell you what a burden you are on society. It doesn't matter if you have worked hard for 10 years and a broken leg has put you out of work for 3 months . It doesn't matter if you were just fired from the factory that you worked at for 20 years. It doesn't matter that you are swimming in debt of student loans and have yet to find a job. It doesn't matter if you were in a abusive relationship and trying to start over . It doesn't matter that you suffer from a mental dieses or addiction and cant not feed your children any other way. YOU ARE A WERLFARE BUM IN THE EYES OF YOUR PEERS!
