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Forgive me if you are offended but I want to share my experiences and look for responses.
I live in the south eastern area of the country. In my town, a great deal of people live in government housing projects yet they drive expensive cars. Some live off of the government unemployment checks, yet they don't try to get jobs. Where I work, I deal with around 5-10 people a week that come in and ask me to sign a letter stating that they attempted to get employment for their unemployment checks. Many of them refuse to take the time to even apply. How is it that this system is efficient? I'm not generalizing because i know many people that use unemployment and get jobs and do well for themselves. I just think its odd that the country is heading towards a people of entitlement rather than a working people. Does anyone else see something wrong with people living on government assistance while they buy expensive clothes cars and jewelry?
Forgive me if you are offended but I want to share my experiences and look for responses.
I live in the south eastern area of the country. In my town, a great deal of people live in government housing projects yet they drive expensive cars. Some live off of the government unemployment checks, yet they don't try to get jobs. Where I work, I deal with around 5-10 people a week that come in and ask me to sign a letter stating that they attempted to get employment for their unemployment checks. Many of them refuse to take the time to even apply. How is it that this system is efficient? I'm not generalizing because i know many people that use unemployment and get jobs and do well for themselves. I just think its odd that the country is heading towards a people of entitlement rather than a working people. Does anyone else see something wrong with people living on government assistance while they buy expensive clothes cars and jewelry?
What kind of expensive cars? Bentley's? Maybach's? Mercedes? And they can afford to make payments on those cars with unemployment?
Your story doesn't hold up, but whatever. You'll stick to it regardless.
I can show you Cadillac Escalades and Mercedes cars parked in front of the projects all over my town. I can show you people that I sign those unemployment forms for that pull out in those very cars and wear big gold chains and rings... How does that not hold up?
I can show you Cadillac Escalades and Mercedes cars parked in front of the projects all over my town. I can show you people that I sign those unemployment forms for that pull out in those very cars and wear big gold chains and rings... How does that not hold up?
At one point those people who collect unemployment were employed. How does one qualify for housing projects if they are employed??
I can show you Cadillac Escalades and Mercedes cars parked in front of the projects all over my town. I can show you people that I sign those unemployment forms for that pull out in those very cars and wear big gold chains and rings... How does that not hold up?
What state pays enough in unemployment to make an Escalade (60k base price....easily a $1000 per month) or a Mercedes (even lowest model is about 45k...easily 700+ per month) payment with unemployment?
So you ride through the projects all the time, huh? Most people are pretty frightened to go through those areas, but you go through all the time and identify the car brands, right?
Big gold chains? Uh....maybe in 1985. No one wears that anymore. The dookie rope era ended about 20years ago.
Look, this situation is hard to believe but this is exactly how it is in my town. I don't know how they are able to collect unemployment, live in projects, and have expensive belongings but they do. Either way, it's simply wrong and I can't believe that 100% of unemployed Americans want jobs..
I recently found out that my close friend has a distant cousing that is collecting disability every month by faking an inability to read.... This is sick
At one point those people who collect unemployment were employed. How does one qualify for housing projects if they are employed??
It goes by income levels. So you can work and still be in the projects or get Section 8 like this lady.
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The first week after they arrived in New York, Ms. Brown found work at a McDonald’s, making $7.25 an hour. “I’d come home,” she said, “and all I could do was fall over in the bed.”
She had also secured a federally subsidized housing voucher that allowed her family to live rent free in a three-bedroom apartment in Brownsville, which is meagerly furnished with items they had picked up on the street. (None of her children’s fathers help financially except for her youngest daughter’s, Ms. Brown said.)
Brownsville is pretty much the worst place in NYC but hey she gets free rent and about $800 in food stamps. Since she works and has minor children she'll get the Earned Income Credit as well about 6-7K.
It's quite easy to believe that someone in similar circumstances could afford a decent car maybe not a Mercedes but a Nissan Altima or Ford Taurus.
What state pays enough in unemployment to make an Escalade (60k base price....easily a $1000 per month) or a Mercedes (even lowest model is about 45k...easily 700+ per month) payment with unemployment?
So you ride through the projects all the time, huh? Most people are pretty frightened to go through those areas, but you go through all the time and identify the car brands, right?
Big gold chains? Uh....maybe in 1985. No one wears that anymore. The dookie rope era ended about 20years ago.
You're not convincing.
Our projects aren't farm from main business roads. To get from one area of town to two of our interstates, you have to go through the projects. I don't have to prove myself to you, I'm sure other people out there know what I'm talking about. As for the big gold chains, you need a reality check, many people (incline famous people) wear gold teeth, chains, rings and earrings
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