You haven't said anything yet.
Want to explain?
Angie
Sure. I will explain. I get really ----ed off when holier than thou people look at someone and presume to know what is going on in their lives. Someone said there are "Two kinds" of "Welfare people".
Well dagnabbit, I am neither of those "Kinds" of people and I know I am using the system wisely, "drinking from the nearly milkless teat of the US and State Government"
If you have never had to stand in line for food, if you have never had to spend a few nights in a shelter, or been homeless, if you have never tried to balance taking your medications daily, and trying to stay sane for the sake of the kids, if you have never looked into the cupboards and realized that for the fourth night in a row your kids were going to have beans and rice, with a little onion for flavoring. If you have ever HAD beans and rice day after day after day....
Get off your freakin high horse and stop judging others by what you SEE. Because what you see isn't all that is 'true and right'.
I get highly peeved, and downright ----ed off when people talk about others (period) and then when they start putting them in their narrow minded little boxes and saying "They know" You don't know a donkey from a mule and that is the truth.
You sit there saying "Why once I saw someone pull up in a caddilac and they didn't want beans and rice" Really? @@ And this one person represents everyone who is on welfare?
Well I will tell you the dad gum truth. I DON'T WANT BEANS AND RICE! Don't want PASTA either. I have about 80 pounds of rice, I have about 200 lbs of beans. I have over 100 pounds of pasta. See...I STORE FOOD. However, I don't want my kids living on beans, rice and pasta. I would love for them to have MEAT occasionally, FRESH VEGETABLES...not expired canned crap.
I know more people on welfare and need help that problably all of you combined. Actually KNOW the people. As in, know them, been to their house, know their budget, walked in their freakin shoes...know them.
I am disabled. Fully, completely, totally, approved the first time by social security -- in less than a MONTH. Doesn't stop my brain from working. I am not stupid. I do the best I can with the RESOURCES THAT ARE AVAILABLE TO ME. If I don't USE those resources, my kids will suffer. Is that milking the system? Is that abusing it? Tough if you think it is.
I have a nice car. If you looked at it you would think that it is brand new. It was the VERY BEST car I could buy at the time, when my car was trashed by some local trash(and totaled) in my neighborhood. The very best I could afford to buy. It is a 2005. You think I don't deserve to have a reliable car? I don't know ANYONE who has a caddi or lincoln, or whatever stereotypical 'rich persons' car you want to jump them for having.
I do know people with NO cars. Who ask to use my car for rides. We don't have public transit here. The bus is almost two miles away and by the time I have walked those two miles, I am where I want to be (grocery store -- whatever direction).
Personally? I need a car. One that won't break down if I sneeze wrong. My last car? Older car. Every time I turned around that car needed something. 1200 for this, 900 for that, nickled and dimed me to death. Every other month was something else that I couldn't afford.
Now? Calfornia is talking about cutting out this and that because of the budget cruch. Well, two of my kids are adopted. Almost 2/3 of my budget now is the AAP (adoption assistance payments). the other little over 1/3 is my SSI. I was doing fine before my mule of an (almost) ex (can't afford to divorce him) stopped paying child support. (It was close each month, but we did it with occasional help from my church and the food bank)
Now? I recieve cash assistance. I was already in public housing. I get ALL my food from the food bank, My bills are killing me and IF they cut out the AAP I will lose my car, and not only won't have money for food, I won't have money for much of anything.
I have sold, bartered and traded my way through the past Five months.
Why don't you come and see how hard I work to afford what we need? And you know what I don't fit into either of your stupid catagories. I am not second, third or four etc. generation welfare, and I am not on welfare temporaraly until I can get a job or whatever.
There,
I have said some of my say. I would say more, but frankly my fingers are hurting and tired, and I have to be somewhere in about 20 minutes.