Middle class people have to pay rent or a mortgage. $75 A week × how many people?
My ex had a gf with 4 kids. She was feeding him everyday with her foodstamps and buying him gifts. He said if he had held on a little longer he would have gotten one of those expensive coolers. Her two oldest kids became of age and section 8 cut benefits and she had to move out of her gated community lol. She drove a school bus for special needs kids. It was a few hours a day. Her main source of income was welfare and child support. She pretended to be pregnant trying to move in with him. When that didn't work she claimed she was going to have to work two jobs and wouldn't be able to see him. He dumped her.
exactly, of course you cant pay rent on 75 a week.
foodstamps cannot buy 'gifts' only food
if a man helped her make the child, she SHOULD Have received support from him and if that didnt cover enough to meet the poverty line, she SHOULD have been able to have means tested (that means that the amount is rated based upon how much on is making) assistance for her kids.
She was feeding him with the foodstamps. The gifts were probably coming from her child support. I agree the father should help support the kids. I'm a single mom and don't get assistance because of assets. I told the guy I was seeing that I didn't want to exchange gifts because I have 3 kids and two grandkids to buy for. He agreed because he has 1 kid 2 grandkids. The welfare mom bought for my ex and lots of gifts for my daughter too. She was living well till those kids started Turning 18. She wasn't using the help to better herself. She was using the money trying to snag a man to support her when they turned 18.
oh well. what they get is still ALL they get. Im not for taxpayers or anyone else being in the back pockets of people telling them what they can or cant use their budget on.
like I said, the programs dont 'better' anyone, they help get them through tough times for a maximum five years per lifetime if they are cash benefits.
food benefits dont 'better' anyone, except by allowing them something for their kids to eat with ... and that should be important
Tax payers are in their back pockets because it's the tax payers working to make the money to support them. Of course someone living well off welfare doesn't want the tax payers to get involved and say "Hey, they are living better than I am off my money". Eic is cash and it's not limited to 5 years. But from what I've heard the new tax code limits it. I think after 2 kids you don't get anymore.
Food stamps could have bettered this woman. It fed her and her kids and she could have been saving her child support to better her children...
It was used to be a dating tool for her. This is the norm for a lot of these mom's on govt assistants. The men pile in and live in the sec 8 housung, eat up the food, use the woman's car, gas money etc, all off the backs of the tax payers.
really, so should 'taxpayers' also dictate to politicians, government workers and military how to spend their income, since 'taxpayers' also support them? Weak reasoning, bordering closely to the lines of slave ownership,,, because it promotes the idea that who ever has the money (the tax system is set up for those WITH money to give back money) should OWN the freedoms of those that dont....
my advice is stop being in other peoples business or assuming you know all the details of their situation ... there are frauds in this world. if you happen to know any, REPORT THEM.
but I ask people to please stop with the highly prejudicial classist bigoted negative stereotypes that lumps poor people in need together as fraudulent or as living somehow better than others in general. I have been there. WE DEFINITELY DO NOT.
These are employees you are refusing to. Not handouts. Comparing welfare to a soldier is crazy. It's this way of thinking that has your people messes up. Saying that a job only benefits the employer is crazy. These thoughts are keeping your people in poverty.
so what? The argument is merely that the source of the money should have power to dictate where the money is spent. which is kind of ownership of people by way of classism.
what is keeping people in poverty(for the most part) are not 'thoughts' but opportunities, wages, and greed.
