Hey Ladies and Gents,
I for one, am totally against the misconstructure of the welfare system. It disgusts me how easy it is for lazy people to live off MY HARD EARNED MONEY! Pretty much, all you have to do is go down to the welfare office and apply.
In recent research that I did for a paper in my Current Events class, a friend of mines (who doesn't work) was able to get approved for a link card (like a debit card that has money on it for food), as well as $400 cash a month just for not having a job. And the money would have tripled if she had any children.
I think this practice of giving away money makes no sense at all. No background check, nothing stating that she would at least look for a job, no psychological check, no anything. Just here's your money, you'll get it once a month, see ya around.
Now to further insult hard working tax payers. They've modified the section eight and low income housing programs. It used to be that all subsidized housing was located in one general area. It pissed people off that we were working and struggling to pay rent while some people just sat on their ass and paid nothing for rent at all. But at least we couldn't see it.
Illinois recently passed a bill that states that every town and city and neighborhood in Illinois has to offer subsidized housing. This touched a major nerve with me. As if it isn't bad enough that these people are living for free, now they get to live next door to me? My parents live in the affluent suburb of North Brook, IL and it's bullshit that they worked so hard to be able to afford the finer things in life and then some lazy bum gets to move next door FOR FREE and blast their music all day while not cutting their grass, or watering the lawn, or doing anything constructive. I think this is a major insult to tax payers throughout Illinois. And when I brought the issue up at a community meeting, I was deemed a "republican" as if that's such a bad thing.
What are your thoughts on this situation? Do you think moving in the bums of the world into upper middle class neighborhoods is a good form of "integration" (their terms, not mines) or is it a bunch of bullshit.
Please discuss.
I for one, am totally against the misconstructure of the welfare system. It disgusts me how easy it is for lazy people to live off MY HARD EARNED MONEY! Pretty much, all you have to do is go down to the welfare office and apply.
In recent research that I did for a paper in my Current Events class, a friend of mines (who doesn't work) was able to get approved for a link card (like a debit card that has money on it for food), as well as $400 cash a month just for not having a job. And the money would have tripled if she had any children.
I think this practice of giving away money makes no sense at all. No background check, nothing stating that she would at least look for a job, no psychological check, no anything. Just here's your money, you'll get it once a month, see ya around.
Now to further insult hard working tax payers. They've modified the section eight and low income housing programs. It used to be that all subsidized housing was located in one general area. It pissed people off that we were working and struggling to pay rent while some people just sat on their ass and paid nothing for rent at all. But at least we couldn't see it.
Illinois recently passed a bill that states that every town and city and neighborhood in Illinois has to offer subsidized housing. This touched a major nerve with me. As if it isn't bad enough that these people are living for free, now they get to live next door to me? My parents live in the affluent suburb of North Brook, IL and it's bullshit that they worked so hard to be able to afford the finer things in life and then some lazy bum gets to move next door FOR FREE and blast their music all day while not cutting their grass, or watering the lawn, or doing anything constructive. I think this is a major insult to tax payers throughout Illinois. And when I brought the issue up at a community meeting, I was deemed a "republican" as if that's such a bad thing.
What are your thoughts on this situation? Do you think moving in the bums of the world into upper middle class neighborhoods is a good form of "integration" (their terms, not mines) or is it a bunch of bullshit.
Please discuss.
but i also had a job at the same time, its was very low paying an not much else around my area if ya search Flint Michigan, just about everyone lives "ghetto" anyway I paid rent but of course at a fraction of what someone with the means to would pay. Now that being said I agree with you Syn if you got an individual or individuals whom are perfectly capable of working but yet choose to ride the welfare system then yeah their a piece of shit. BUT at the same time i think that subsidized housing is great for people who are really trying to make ends meat but their local economy just wont support that, I as a male of course am not entitled to any cash benifits and never have wanted that, I just got reduced rent or living assistance, anyway thats my past, I own a house now with a morgage ana all taht good shit, but i feel what your upset about:thumb:
