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But since Clinton's era, there has been a law limiting how long you can remain on welfare and only three states that don't have state limits. Also, that's completely inaccurate that simply having a child makes you eligable for welfare or having more children gives you more money. I mean, I also know people who have children and were struggling and were denied by welfare. Furthermore, welfare in a lot of places does require you to either be actively working or working at least part-time.
My own brother is on disability and you get carefully interviewed pretty much every year. They watch his income, they send out a psychologist to make sure he's still disabled. And sometimes they'll try to pull bullshit and try to cut off his benefits by saying he's not. We had that when he said he wanted to get a driver's license. Trust me, we would love for him to be able to get hired and be able to live independantly, but for him that's 100% impossible. He can't manage money or social situations. He can't even do manual labor because he's not even developed enough to work with machinery.
And are you sure those people are purposely getting low-pay jobs? Because I'm sure anyone in their right mind would want more money and a better life style if they could. But some people have disabilities that will limit them from being hired, or they lack transportation, or they lack training/education/work experience, etc.
I don't know. Maybe I have a different point of view because I work in a low income neighborhood and I see a ton of people trying their best to get by, but they can't. I've also heard of people being unable to go to work or even send their children to school because they lack transportation. It could also be your state.
True, there have been restrictions, but it hasn't changed much for the people I know on welfare. But there are multiple types of welfare and they do work differently.
Having a child and making a certain income allows you to obtain it as long as you apply and all that. Normally it goes to single parents. And it's based on family size, so you DO get more for more children. It's meant to keep your family from starving and such. Hence a certain percent per child.
Yes, my aunt was forced to get a job back about.......I think 8 or so years ago so that she could keep getting welfare. Before that, she did nothing.
Your brother is on it for Disability. There's the difference. When it comes to single parent families with multiple children, it's less stringent. It is observed very rarely. Mostly done in the form of insuring you don't make more than the cap or else you are dropped.
I am DAMN sure. Some people do take lower paying jobs because they have to and they work hard to scrape by, this is true. I'm not saying everyone on welfare is lying. But I am saying that you claim it's a myth that people on welfare are lazy and don't work. That is bull-hockey. My aunt works at Walmart because she has to have a job. So she went with the easy route. She's been just a low level employee forever. My cousin, her son, started working at Walmart maybe 1 or 2 years before she did. He moved up the chain quickly and ended up running a whole department. He isn't lazy like her and he will vouche she's a no good person. She doesn't have any want to get a better job. And all of my dad's side are getting some sort of Food Stamps or Welfare and they are cracked out drug heads. They honestly couldn't have a job because they are so baked all the time, they can't function. Not that they want to. They are given enough to live in a crappy run down house in the middle of a Government paid housing area.
You clearly don't understand how some people think then. People don't always want better. Some are content with not having to work. They mooch. They get to sit home and do nothing and HEY! They get free money! Why would you ever want out of that situation? It's easy. Getting up every morning and going to work for what you have is hard. I don't want to be at work all the time. I would LOVE to sit at home and play videogames or draw or be out with friends. But I have ambition and would rather work for what I own than to be given it. That same drive and ambition is what people who abuse Welfare programs lack. That's why they don't want better. they'd actually have to work for it.
I understand what you are saying. And I'm glad you know those sorts of people. But I used to live right next to/in a 'Ghetto' section of East Tennessee and I can tell you not a single person in that block or the ones surrounding gave two shits about getting out of that situation or bettering themselves. Well, maybe one or two here and there, but the majority were fine with sitting around and getting handouts.
I think that it's not just my state, I think it's human nature. And you may be a much nicer person than me and may not have seen it yet.
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