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17 years ago
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Today I saw a group with a disturbing trend of thought.
Now, mind you, I believe that healthcare, section 8 and other forms of welfare and social security needs to be changed in this country. I believe it needs an update, and definitely needs to be less bias against the single person. (I'm sorry, but when you only get 30 bucks a month in food stamps as a single person, but pick up a deadbeat looser of a boyfriend the amount goes up to 200! No, that's wrong. A person should not be force to have to have a child, a looser partner who doesn't work for themselves, or other extremes just to be a VALID PERSON who needs help!)
But I do not believe is should be completely taken away. I'm sorry, but it would NOT help people to come out of poverty. Going to school, working hard and everything is part of a key to change. But if you take away the foundation there to help these people survive. People become desperate. Crime would increase, and we'd see a disturbing increase in drug trafficking and child prostitution as people started to get desperate to not live on the streets. Let alone the greater increase in homeless.
I'm sorry. But I don't want to see more children than there are without homes, abandoned, unwanted, and alone on a street corner with nowhere to go and no hope for the future. His belly grumbling because he's hungry, likely sick and possibly addicted to something just to help him 'cope'.
And I know for myself, I've lived since 2000 on the aid of the government. Food stamps, welfare, SSI. While I hate it. I hate the limits and I see from the inside how the system needs to change. How the people running it need to change, I also see how I would not be where I am now without it. I would be living on the street, or going from house to house to house among my family with no hope of things getting better. Having everyone pressuring me to 'get a job' when without the medication, the doctors and other medical I needed, I would be terrified to even go out the door, stuck in a wheeled chair and alone after my parents passed.
I've come a long way, I still have a long way to go. But today thanks to help I wouldn't have gotten WITHOUT the welfare and such that these people wish to be rid of, I am starting to work again. I live independent (with a room mate) and I look forward to having another day where I will be able to walk in the sun on my own two feet. Be able to live, and love and be with my friends. Not hiding like a hermit in a small dark place, or a street corner.
Let's not go into credit checks this time.. That's a whole 'nother can of worms.
Now, mind you, I believe that healthcare, section 8 and other forms of welfare and social security needs to be changed in this country. I believe it needs an update, and definitely needs to be less bias against the single person. (I'm sorry, but when you only get 30 bucks a month in food stamps as a single person, but pick up a deadbeat looser of a boyfriend the amount goes up to 200! No, that's wrong. A person should not be force to have to have a child, a looser partner who doesn't work for themselves, or other extremes just to be a VALID PERSON who needs help!)
But I do not believe is should be completely taken away. I'm sorry, but it would NOT help people to come out of poverty. Going to school, working hard and everything is part of a key to change. But if you take away the foundation there to help these people survive. People become desperate. Crime would increase, and we'd see a disturbing increase in drug trafficking and child prostitution as people started to get desperate to not live on the streets. Let alone the greater increase in homeless.
I'm sorry. But I don't want to see more children than there are without homes, abandoned, unwanted, and alone on a street corner with nowhere to go and no hope for the future. His belly grumbling because he's hungry, likely sick and possibly addicted to something just to help him 'cope'.
And I know for myself, I've lived since 2000 on the aid of the government. Food stamps, welfare, SSI. While I hate it. I hate the limits and I see from the inside how the system needs to change. How the people running it need to change, I also see how I would not be where I am now without it. I would be living on the street, or going from house to house to house among my family with no hope of things getting better. Having everyone pressuring me to 'get a job' when without the medication, the doctors and other medical I needed, I would be terrified to even go out the door, stuck in a wheeled chair and alone after my parents passed.
I've come a long way, I still have a long way to go. But today thanks to help I wouldn't have gotten WITHOUT the welfare and such that these people wish to be rid of, I am starting to work again. I live independent (with a room mate) and I look forward to having another day where I will be able to walk in the sun on my own two feet. Be able to live, and love and be with my friends. Not hiding like a hermit in a small dark place, or a street corner.
Let's not go into credit checks this time.. That's a whole 'nother can of worms.
