I grew up in appalachia (as ive pointed out a gazillion times). Like most of the poor people from that area I grew up on food stamps.
Despite what people think they didnt just give them to my dad for free he had to get a job. He did find something that was good for him but it only paid minimum wage which was something like 5$ at that time in ohio. It was not near enough to pay the bills/taxes, buy clothes/shoes, even food when it was a fraction of the price it is now. Everything I wore was thrift store/second hand.
It was an embarrassing enough experience THEN, that I would rather starve as a adult than ask for food stamps. If I had kids, yes I guess I would do what I had to do to make sure they were fed, but adult individuals get a tiny tiny fraction of what actual familys get.
What I find truly embarrassing, that our government cant protect the common person enough to protect their rights. Like right to clean water, food or housing, things that were and should be human rights, but people dont seem to care anymore. Everyone is suffering from compassion fatigue. Only hurting themselves in the end, as the rich want us divided.
I find it evil that tax money is being used to be swindled by the rich while the poor and sick are forgotten. No one seems to care that trillions of dollars are spent on the spy apparatus or weapons of war. Zero FUCKS GIVEN. Ohio funneling public money to private religious institutions and away from public schools infuriates me beyond my soul.
One time when visiting dayton, someone stole my dads workboots and food stamps from his truck. One of us forgot to lock the doors, this was 30 years ago lmao.
Poor people are big business! Thousands of bureaucrats in every city depend on an ever-growing number of poor folks for their fat government jobs!
Years back? My Province saw "child poverty" fall to an all-time low. Rather than be happy? Those in charge simply jacked up the level that defined poverty in their system. A month later they were screaming for more funding since "child poverty" had shot uP! 😣
Ditto for sick people & homeless people: big bucks to be made in keeping them sick & homeless.
Like right to clean water, food or housing, things that were and should be human rights, but people dont seem to care anymore.
I've been told that if I want to be able to afford to live that I should just get a better job or start my own business as though it's actually that easy to succeed that you can just go out and do it.
I grew up in appalachia (as ive pointed out a gazillion times). Like most of the poor people from that area I grew up on food stamps.
Despite what people think they didnt just give them to my dad for free he had to get a job. He did find something that was good for him but it only paid minimum wage which was something like 5$ at that time in ohio. It was not near enough to pay the bills/taxes, buy clothes/shoes, even food when it was a fraction of the price it is now. Everything I wore was thrift store/second hand.
It was an embarrassing enough experience THEN, that I would rather starve as a adult than ask for food stamps. If I had kids, yes I guess I would do what I had to do to make sure they were fed, but adult individuals get a tiny tiny fraction of what actual familys get.
What I find truly embarrassing, that our government cant protect the common person enough to protect their rights. Like right to clean water, food or housing, things that were and should be human rights, but people dont seem to care anymore. Everyone is suffering from compassion fatigue. Only hurting themselves in the end, as the rich want us divided.
I find it evil that tax money is being used to be swindled by the rich while the poor and sick are forgotten. No one seems to care that trillions of dollars are spent on the spy apparatus or weapons of war. Zero FUCKS GIVEN. Ohio funneling public money to private religious institutions and away from public schools infuriates me beyond my soul.
One time when visiting dayton, someone stole my dads workboots and food stamps from his truck. One of us forgot to lock the doors, this was 30 years ago lmao.
Poor people are big business! Thousands of bureaucrats in every city depend on an ever-growing number of poor folks for their fat government jobs!
Years back? My Province saw "child poverty" fall to an all-time low. Rather than be happy? Those in charge simply jacked up the level that defined poverty in their system. A month later they were screaming for more funding since "child poverty" had shot uP! 😣
Ditto for sick people & homeless people: big bucks to be made in keeping them sick & homeless.
I've been told that if I want to be able to afford to live that I should just get a better job or start my own business as though it's actually that easy to succeed that you can just go out and do it.
The Fed can just print another few million worthless fiatbux. It's all fake anyway.