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I agree. I actually stunned a few black female co workers when I explained to them that I would never take food stamps or medicaid if I didn't have to, and if things got that bad, I would cut down on as many luxuries as I could to try to make it work. What was their response? They had that "take what you can get" mentality, even if they had enough.
Like you said, where is the pride?
1. How is the sex of these coworkers relevant to your point?
2. How is the race of these coworkers relevant to your point?
3. How about telling us what they actually said and letting us figure out if they had "that `take what you can get' mentality, even though they had enough"?
There is no shame today.. they are bold some of the takers.. they get in line for any freebee and some don't even have a need.
Of course I have seen shame from some who got into circumstances that they couldn't help.. those who really need the help and are not the kind to be a taker are the ones who sheepishly have to humble themselves to get assistance.
Today many of the takers are bold and think they deserve everything from the government.. and Obama makes the takers who are brazen even more so.
How many times does it have to be said that Medicare is NOT FREE, for Pete's sake.
Wait 'til you need it. You'll be paying a monthly premium. Just like everybody else.
LOL, most people pay their tiny Medicare premiums by having it deducted from their Social Security payments. So they are basically just giving the government back some of their money making the total net amount of their welfare benefits slightly smaller.
When you add up all of the government assistance that old people receive, none of them are coming out of pocket to pay their Medicare premiums.
Have you ever lost your job and got unemployment? That is government assistance as well.
Also it is too bad that people want to play the race card here and try to make it seem like black women are the ones on welfare not caring that they are using assistance.
I'm a black woman and am not on welfare, foodstamps, WIC, none of that. But I also am not crazy enough to say that I would be ashamed if I happened to fall on hard times and had to use one of our social safety nets. I have also worked since I was a teenager (14) as has the majority of my black family so we have paid into the social safety net system as well. Don't see why you would think that someone working, yet getting foodstamps is not the same as someone who paid into medicare/medicaid or SS and who is now receving benefits. If anything, those on welfare are less of an expense than the others and contrary to what people on medicaid/medicare or SS think (those who want to complain about people on government assistance), you are not and did not pay for all the services you are using. You are just on a different form of welfare.
Really? High and mighty? Nothing wrong with having a little pride, to many ghetto dwellers have been collecting for generations and think it is a way of life, rather than a bridge to a better life.
You do know there is a such thing as welfare reform right? No one is living generation after generation collecting benefits anymore. And why the need to speak of "ghetto dwellers." Who are these ghetto dwellers - black people! Why not mention trailer park dwellers?
I guess this is just another black thread in disguise huh.
Very often many children. Most of them very intelligent hoping to get a great education and lift them out of poverty.
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