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If I were on welfare I could get a medical card, WIC, food stamps, a rent free apartment, paid utilites, clothing vouchers, and a cash check each month.
Instead I am married to a man who is college educated and has a good job. So we have to pay an insurance deductable of $750.00 each Jan then out ins coverage is 80/20. And don't forget the hundreds of dollars that comes out of his check each month for the ins. I am about to have a baby via c-section. We just paid out $750.00 dectuable and now it is time to pay the $750.00 again for this year. Our 20% of the hospital stay/c-section will be thousands more.
If we had a medical card......all FREE.
I also had bre$st surgery a few years ago and will have to use formula the whole time. Have you seen the price of that stuff??? Of course if I were on welfare ... I could get WIC....all FREE.
Buy the time we pay all of our medical bills and for the formula the people on walfare will be living better than me. I will have to struggle to pay my rent, utilites, and food. If I were on welfare it would all be FREE.
My best friend just had a baby and said on the birth cert. father unknown. She gets all of this stuff for free. Plus she babysits a couple of kids and gets close to $1,000 a month "under the table money." She drives a better car, lives in a nicer townhouse, has nicer things, and can afford to go out alot more that we can.
It just doesn't make sence to me.
The OP said that she had breast surgery and is complaining about it being hard? Sounds like a spoiled brat who did not get her way.
I openly look down on those who abuse the welfare system and can't get off their fat butt to contribute to society. When you are off welfare and do end up in the dumps one day but can no longer get welfare, I'll just laugh at you and tell you that you got what you deserved. Leeches.
Hmmm. I doubt it. You seem pretty self satisfied. I doubt that you could handle facing the looks of contempt on people's faces (people like you) that think you are on welfare because you want to be.
All those people who say nothing to your face, except through their faces. The cashier that takes your food stamps. The landlord that accepts your aided rent credits. All those people looking down their raised noses, so they don't have to smell your contemptible presence.
I openly look down on those who abuse the welfare system and can't get off their fat butt to contribute to society. When you are off welfare and do end up in the dumps one day but can no longer get welfare, I'll just laugh at you and tell you that you got what you deserved. Leeches.
Are you going to make a special trip to the dumps to do this or will you already be there?
Thank you for a common sense posting about this subject.
A lot of phoney stuff is stated about welfare. Having a severely handicapped adult child I get to deal with the medical and dental care associated with the Medicaid program, and the level of care is not something that any of you would find acceptable.
I spend money on my kid's medical and dental care, because that authorized under Medicaid is positively awful. I would much rather "out of pocket" her care (to the extent I financially can) then use the Medicaid approved medical process.
Well then why, for god's sake, would you want Obamacare foisted on any of us who recognize it for what it is?
On the other extreme we have the never-do-well dope using teen that just wrecked daddy’s Ferrari and is whining for another. Being a lazy good for nothing is a sin if you are poor and expected if your family is rich. Such a deal we should all have.
Yeah, but those "rent free apartments" are in places like Cabrini-Green.
Not a big fan of welfare, but it is pretty goofy acting like people on welfare are living the high life.
Actually, Cabrini-Green has been torn down.
It was determined that the urban community development didn't really work out as planned. People on the public dole didn't motivate each other to work and develop their communities, instead only lead to higher crime... basically a race to the bottom.
Thus, now, it is the initiative to move these people out into developed suburban communities and hopefully motivate people in public housing by seeing their successful neighbors. Or, as we all know will happen, raise crime and drive down the value of the community they are moved into.
Ever hear of Section 8?
I have to wonder, all of those people who spout off in support of these programs, if they even live in an enviornment where the consequences of failed social program impact them? I am guessing not. Its easy to make these assessments standing on the outside looking in.
It was determined that the urban community development didn't really work out as planned. People on the public dole didn't motivate each other to work and develop their communities, instead only lead to higher crime... basically a race to the bottom.
Thus, now, it is the initiative to move these people out into developed suburban communities and hopefully motivate people in public housing by seeing their successful neighbors. Or, as we all know will happen, raise crime and drive down the value of the community they are moved into.
Ever hear of Section 8?
I have to wonder, all of those people who spout off in support of these programs, if they even live in an enviornment where the consequences of failed social program impact them? I am guessing not. Its easy to make these assessments standing on the outside looking in.
Cabrini-Green was demolished some time ago.
If I had my way all of those projects would be torn down nationwide - especially the ones with only one way in/one way out. I'd prefer a complex with X amount of units considered low income rather than a whole low income neighborhood. Of course then the issue becomes people not wanting low income families living in their complex
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Really?
