Do you claim any kind of benefit? How do you feel about those who do?

[Svnla]

None right now. I was on scholarship/grant/work study in college.

I and most, if not all, people don't mind if you get "temporary" help to get back on your feet but generations after generations of leeching are not cool and acceptable.

 

[ProfJohn]

This is a myth.

Really?

65% of poor have two TVs
63% have cable or satellite
32% have more than two TVs
29% have a video game system vs 31% for all Americans... so poor are almost as likely to have a system
17% have a big screen TV vs 27% for all Americans.

Being poor must suck...

 

[ProfJohn]

I thought so too, but I saw a lot of hostility in the "food stamps" thread.

Hostility because of crap like this
"Terry Clark says she stood in line for more than six hours at Clayton County's Human Services Office because food stamp help for her six children unexpectedly ended."

Six fucking kids!!! If you can't feed your kids without government help then STOP having them!!!!

 

[ProfJohn]

I have no problem with people getting temporary help or helping the handicapped.

But if you spend your whole life waiting for a government handout then that is a problem.

 

[Avalon]

I claim no benefits, and I'm fine with those who truly need it claiming them.

Same.

 

[Mursilis]

OP really needs to define "benefits". For example, I got gov't-guaranteed student loans for school. From my understanding of it, the gov't didn't actually pay anything, but would've been on the hook to the private banks if I'd defaulted. But since I paid off my loans (early, in fact), the gov't really didn't have to pay anything for me. Does that count as a "benefit"?

Likewise, SS is a benefit if you receive it long enough. Sure, people actually paid into that system, but after a while, they're no longer receiving "their" money (+ interest) because they've depleted their own contributions - they're just receiving other people's money. So does that count as a "benefit" to the OP?

 

[her209]

I drive on public roads. Does that count?

 

[Ausm]

Really?

65% of poor have two TVs
63% have cable or satellite
32% have more than two TVs
29% have a video game system vs 31% for all Americans... so poor are almost as likely to have a system
17% have a big screen TV vs 27% for all Americans.

Being poor must suck...

I thought you didn't believe in any Gubermint statistics or is that just the ones that come out of this current Administration?

Oh that was presented by the Heritage Foundation? HAHAHAHAHAHAHAH I bet you sleep with that

 

[rudder]

Other than unemployment benefits.. i have never claimed anything. My brother-in-law had to go on food stamps when he lost his job. He ad 3 kids to feed. He is working again and off food stamps.

Government assistance is meant to be temporary... not a lifestyle. You have people in the U.S. who become adults living on the government teet and dying without ever getting off the government teet.

 

[BoomerD]

Wassamadda? You didn't get the kind of responses you wanted in your other thread?

http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?t=2186960

 

[Orignal Earl]

Really?

65% of poor have two TVs
63% have cable or satellite
32% have more than two TVs
29% have a video game system vs 31% for all Americans... so poor are almost as likely to have a system
17% have a big screen TV vs 27% for all Americans.

Being poor must suck...

I can walk down my back alley any given day of the week and pick up several working TV's and bring em home. ( environment terrorists would have a field day )
Isn't most of the stuff in that list considered junk?

 

[Todd33]

Here in NY a couple years ago gave money to people with children on medicaid. It was supposedly given for school supplies. The more kids the more money. Game consoles and HDTVs flew off the shelves. Alcohol and tobacco too. Know what was left? School supplies. 170 million dollars worth of tax dollars spent on fluff in one day.

That's not a myth, and that's why people get upset.

Meanwhile we get fleeced by white collar and corporate crimes (some "legal") for billion while people like you point at isolated examples to keep the focus on them darkies. What a scam.