It is so sad looking in this thread and see all the ill informed replies because of the news. The news shows you only the people who beg and walk down the street into there Bently at the end of the day. The news only shows you the guy who parks his new car down the street in raggy clothes going into the welfair office to pick up his/her months check. I been on the system. Not because I am lazy. Because I was laid off from jobs, and the jobs I had to take to get some sort of money coming, in wasnt enough to keep us afloat. Or like now when I am disabled and unable to find employment in my condition. My wife works, she could do what 25% of thoes on welfair do, that you see on the news, and just act like she was looking for a job so that we can stay on it, but didnt. And now that she did find a job, the state we live in considers the hours you work rather then what you make to determine if you stay on the system or not. That is if you work over 100 hours, your cut off. My wife is unskilled, makes $5.60 an hour, what kind of luxeries do you think were going to be able to afford on that? If it wasnt for my house being paid off it wouldnt take long for us to become homeless on her pay trying JUST to make the bills only. Right now, at it sits, till I can get on SSI, on her pay there is no cable tv, there is no going out to eat, there is no celebrating any holidays, there is no insurance on any of us. And welfair just said thats it your working to many hours, not you make to much. She could be making $3 an hour, but she works,
WORKS, to many hours to stay on it. They punish you for WORKING to hard and give it to the ones you see on the news leaching, NOT looking for work, or, even want to work.
Anyone here want to tell me if they had no outside help from anyone, with 2 children, and a disabled SO
WOULDNT BE Homeless on $5.60 a hour living where they are right now. No welfair, no food stamps, NO healthcare, and no family or friends that could front you money to get by for the rest of your life. Wouldnt take you that long would it? You wouldnt end up like me now would you with a migrane all day, cant sleep, shaking all the time, wanting to kill yourself because if you did they would recieve assistance? But because your disabled worthless shaking cant talk ass is still here
you get nothing and have to try to figure out a way between all the pain how the fvck you dont become homeless and lose you children to the state on $5.60 an hour with NO help from anyone.
So before you go commenting and making replies like I see find out the real picture or live it for yourself and see how the system really works. Ask yourself "if I lost my job today and could find one for 4 months, would I be homeless if I didnt go on welfair or got any outside help from anyone?" I worked all my life up to the point I became disabled. I was never on the system before and though like most that ones on it are worthless scum. I paid alot into this system, and yes, I got onto it when all my resources, or where I was at, was not enough. I dont have family I can call and ask for help. The ones that would of are dead and the ones alive dont give a rats ass. You find out really fast where your family lies when you become poor and they look down at you with the same attitude as you would get if they met a poor stranger on the street. I have a younger brother in Joliet, who, I bailed his ass not only out of jail but alot of times from being one step on the street, and a older brother in LA who makes a good buck, and, owns his own business. Do you think they would come to our time of need when we needed it, HELL NO. Who helped us more then anyone, YOU DID ANANDTECH. People we didnt know, saved us 3 times from being homeless when I got hurt and was going through paxil withdrawls. Fvck my brother owes me $500 when I bailed his ass out of jail for a DUI at 4 am in the morning, right after I got laid off and needed the money, and SILL has yet to pay me back. And when I asked him when I was short on my lot rent for that money threw a fit, saying he didnt have it. And 4 years later have still yet seen it. I didnt ask him for a hand out. I asked him for money I loaned him to bail his ass out of a shiitey situation. Anyway....
I wish the news would do a real report and find all the ones who actually need the asistance and put them all on the news with thier story. Expose the real ones for all to see, but that wont be news worthy then would it
They can eaisy go and follow everyone for a year, and weed out the ones leaching and the ones who trully need it. It needs to be done so to give all the effort they can, and free up millions of dollars each year, to help the trully needed ones. But no my state is set in place to help the ones who are leaching by telling them you find a job and actually work it your cut off, so fvck off and make it look like your looking and we will pay you to stay on it. It makes no sense to run it like that at all
Oh if my wife didnt work we kinda had it made. Insurance on all of us. Hell my insurance for me alone per month, if I was to go out and get it, is over $500 a month, for just me, not including my prescrioptions. Add my wife and kids and it would be close, if not over, $1K a month (my wife doesnt even make this per month working), we got $250 in cash, and $550 in food stamp. This is WAY WAY more then she makes now, and we wont spend half that much on food for the 4 of us, and there is no insurance we could afford
and I need to keep me alive. We could of easily just acted like she was looking for work and kept all of that, like all the rest, but we didnt. And, again, we gave up on something I need to keep me alive. Am I scum? Are we lazy? We could of said fvck it and stayed on it for a few years till my three years are up per my settlement I got, how do you feel that we didnt want to stay on it and try to make ends met, at the expense really, of the health of my children and me? We dont have cable tv right now and havent had it for over 8 months. We havent gone out and seen a movie in over 5 years. We had dinner, one time, after I sold something in the FS/FT forum about 3 months ago, at the chinese buffet. My kids Birthday and christmas is comming up in December, and, my 7 year anniversary is comming up as well, WHICH BTW, because of situations pretty much from day one, have yet to go out on our honeymoon. How much of a scum am I for trying my damness not to go on the system and when I did still tried my damnness and cut everything out just to make ends meet not to be homeless and lose my kids to the state.
So there, I could of said screw it honey lets leach, we make more being on it. But noooooooooo would you see us on the news for doing what we did just to get off the system? Fvck no. I been here a year. During which a got my settlement, paid off all my bills including my house, took the rest while my wife was looking for work, for almost a year, and used the rest of my settlement to pay the bills, till there was nothing left, AND THEN, went back on welfair to keep the lights on and food on the table. I could of easily, with about $9K left to my name got on welfair down here right away but didnt. Instead, as usual, used my money for bills while my wife looked for work. She has applied to every place from here to a hour away in every direction and has finnaly found a job that hired her. Not because she was lazy. Oh no, she has had 2 jobs her entire life. At which she has stayed many years at each. No real reason not to hire her, she applied at 3 different walmarts which they all even called her refs and people she put down as friends to call on her, WHICH they called, and still have yet to get a call to bring her in for a interview. When we had some money I did buy me a few things to keep my busy around here. I am glad I did. We also have the internet on because it is needed this day and age, for my kids and it gives me something to do. Without it and I had to sit here, poor, broke, with nothing to do, dweling on my disability adn what my wife and kids would get if I killed myself, for my wife would get all kinds of assistance being a widow of 2 and no real income. I think I would of killed myself several months ago if thats all I could do all day long.
But again would you call us lazy scum? Looking at the clock it took me over 1 hours to type this out right now in my condition, and I am done for the day. I tried to catch all the mistakes and just think if I had not gone back and re-read that garbage what it would look like
OH yeah I can work right no too. Call me the human bobble head (LOL Mods can I get my screen name changed to that?)
My point I guess is, is that, it doesnt take much to happen to a person to become homeless. No not all states have a system in place to help one from doing that , and in the case of mine punishes you for finding work, especially, if it doesnt pay much at all. I still to this day, even as broke as were are, if I am aproched or see someone down and out, will hand them my change or a few bucks if I can afford to do so. When I got my settlement I gave, thats right gave free and clear, my traielr to my neighbor. He was worse off then I was in a run down one with no celing, missing windows, 4 kids, and worked his ass off as a roofer and collected junk around town to try to make ends meet for his family. I gave him my trailer I paid $3500 for, for free. Got my settlement, paid off my taxes, got my title and signed it and handed it right to him. Should of seen his and his wifes face. Priceless.
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