• Maggoty@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    Tell me you know nothing about welfare without saying you know nothing about welfare.

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        11 months ago

        I never said they were, but if you really did work with people on welfare then you’d know they aren’t getting anything for free. After you qualify for welfare most forms are aggressively measured against the exact amount they think you need to stay housed and fed. And that amount is almost always less than what’s really required. So there’s no overage to take advantage of, no house you can rent and sublet, and selling furniture on Craigslist doesn’t count as being employed for the work requirement. Further you’re not getting a break for your medical problems. You can’t just pull the ripcord and go back to being a millionaire. You have to tough it out on your job after the hospital stabilized you and turfed you like they do to all Medicaid patients.

        But no go on about their “character” and how they have to act like angels in the system currently crushing them beneath it’s bootheels.

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            11 months ago

            No. The point is people on welfare are paying for shit. This guy didn’t even pay for his housing. Nobody is getting free housing from the government unless they’re a 90 year old veteran in a VA Hospice facility.

            You also didn’t give any examples. So no I’m not just going to go away.