Yeaaaaaahhhhhhhhh Obama

[Flipx99 5,000+ posts]

What makes me laugh is when people think every person on welfare is a lazy fat ***.

It doesn't matter to me if it's one person on welfare. I have as much disdain for corporate welfare as I do personal welfare.

 

[roarzorz 10+ year member]

All this stuff has been going on way longer than Obama's been around so I don't blame him for it.

 

[Flipx99 5,000+ posts]

All this stuff has been going on way longer than Obama's been around so I don't blame him for it.

But like the President before him, he is extending the benefits with S-CHIP and the like.

At least Clinton curbed the benefits a bit.

 

[bones22 5,000+ posts]

All this stuff has been going on way longer than Obama's been around so I don't blame him for it.

the idea is that it will get far worse or out of hand now

personally im in the middle i dont think things will get any better but then again i dont see HIM making them worse

time will tell

 

[ughhibye 10+ year member]

my problem with obama is his upcoming assault on my second amendment rights. not to mention are vice president who is the man who wrote the 1986 weapond ban. i hope they both die tarred and feathered and hung high in the street

 

[Chevillac 5,000+ posts]

There are some absurd parts to that story but most of everything described in there is going on everyday. Especially here in the south. Someone gets a section 8 apartment for free (Section 8 apartments include free rent, power, & water) then move their aunt, cousin, bff, and all their kids in it with them. They all receive unemployment ($326 a week), AFDC (Aid for Dependent Children which is $100+) & food stamps (EBT card which can be upwards of $300+ a month) and even though they don't have jobs they also get daycare vouchers for free daycare. Who the hell needs free daycare when they don't even work.
When you go by the section8 apartments here you'll see a huge row of satelite dishes out front. It's ridiculous that they can't afford rent but they can afford Dish Network, DirectTV, or at least have cable. You'll also see lots of new and very nice cars parked there. Yeah, they can't afford to pay for power or water that they need to survive but they can afford to make payments on that gas-guzzling Expedition on 22s. And of course eveyone has a cell phone that plays music, videos, gets online, etc.

A while back I worked for a few years as AM for a finance company. Part of my job was door to door collections for past due accounts. I had to go to places almost daily that looked just like the one pictured. People that had no job or a low paying part-time job yet lived in a very nice apartment filled with new leather furniture, big screen tvs, nice stereos, etc while driving a nice car.

Here's a story about an incident at my kid's daycare. They're the only daycare that opens early (5:30am) and closes late (12am) to accomodate single parents who work 1st and 2nd shift. One mother didn't show up til 1am to pick up her son, and only then after the police were called, because "I was watching a movie and didn't want to stop". Those were her exact words. She doesn't even have a job yet takes her son to daycare and the state pays every bit of it. She was required to pay late fees for not showing up on time and actually had the nerve to complain about it.

There are things that explain a lot of what you said in this post. Not saying it is right the way things happen, but there are people using people in the projects to get over, and the people in the projects dont care, because they live nice.....in the projects.

The last paragraph, well thats just bad parenting.

 

[mrogowski 5,000+ posts]

A few years back, a single mother of three (in Canada) who was working full time, found that she made more money by simply going on welfare verses working, paying rent, daycare, etc. etc. I believe her take-home on welfare amounted to ~$40k/year.

 

[perfecxionX 10+ year member]

http://www.snopes.com/politics/satire/jasper.asp

original article

http://www.jimbyrd.com/welfare-aint-what-it-used-to-be

more pics

“Look at all these bottles of wine”, she said–”they are worthless. Just another example of thinking I am stupid. All this wine is at least 10 years old and some of it is 20 years old, you know the white man kept all the fresh stuff for himself. I ain’t that stupid.”

 

[mr.michael 10+ year member]

doesnt bother me one bit, because the silly Whiteys invented the system

say what mu****a? ya you know why, its called affirmative action, same shit, cause "it would be racist to treat blacks unequal to whites" omg **** a dick. affirmative action is the same reason judge mathis is even a judge! haha you think a pos like him in his teens these days could be a judge? "well probly" but back then it was affirmative action, dont even say its "whiteys" fault pff? idk dude shit like this pisses me off, i aint racist but dam the bish doesnt surprise, why the **** did you post that you knew it was gonna piss every1 off

 

[Flipx99 5,000+ posts]

A few years back, a single mother of three (in Canada) who was working full time, found that she made more money by simply going on welfare verses working, paying rent, daycare, etc. etc. I believe her take-home on welfare amounted to ~$40k/year.

That is oftentimes the case because these women have little to know marketable skills and must settle job menial jobs with low pay. IF we are going to subsidize, I say make them work and let welfare cover the difference...which is what I hear we are trying to get in motion. We must make that marginal dollar worth going to work vs. staying at home.