Why so much anger towards people on welfare?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Weird. I assumed most cashiers are on some form of assistance too. They don't make livable wages to where they could survive without some form of help.

This feels like a troll post, though.

Op here,
No troll. I worked as a cashier in college and I was not on welfare.

You probably had other assistance and/or did not have a family to support.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The cashier at Target basically told the customer in front of me, my register doesn’t not accept welfare money loudly.
It’s not the first time cashiers have try to embarrass people out loud.

Was the casher angry? Your post said the casher spoke the customer loudly. Loudly=/=angry.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:“If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best colored man, he won't notice you're picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he'll empty his pockets for you.“

The South in a nutshell. And he'll vote for you, too!

DCUM sneaking in some unneccesary southern bashing in a nutshell! Good job!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yep pp hit it on the nose. The cashier is mad because they are a cashier and needs to lord it over someone.

At least the cashier is working and doing a job.

I'm not saying OP could be working but uses welfare as an excuse to not work, but there are absolutely many many people who are capable of working, but would rather be paid (via welfare) to not work.

There are of course some people who legitimately cannot work and need welfare.

Literally no one is using “welfare” as an excuse not to work; cash welfare almost does not exist in the US anymore. Clinton (and everyone else involved) is going to burn in Hell for what he did to people via this.

Yes cash welfare better know as TNAF - now had a limit of 5 years total over a persons lifetime. Then they will begin to receive social security/ disability payments.

Except in DC. Because DC abolished the limit on years. “Discontinuing Time Limits – families can now receive benefits beyond the federal 60-month lifetime limit” . So yes in DC one can still get cash welfare benefits for a lifetime.

I am always amazed at the number of people who aren’t aware of this. Why do you think poor people continue to live in Dc? Did you think it was for the violence and crappy apartments?

https://dhs.dc.gov/service/tanf-district-families

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Weird. I assumed most cashiers are on some form of assistance too. They don't make livable wages to where they could survive without some form of help.

This feels like a troll post, though.

Op here,
No troll. I worked as a cashier in college and I was not on welfare.

You probably had other assistance and/or did not have a family to support.

I got by in grad school on a salary of 13k but I am not quick to judge because nobody could get by on that now since times (and prices) change.

[Anonymous]

I am on SNAP. I have a child who is old enough to be in school for me to work, but I don’t have a requirement to work. There are many women who have kids but don’t work or work very little on SNAP. I do work, but definitely do a lot of wage planning - to not earn too much to receive any benefits.
As for the cashier, I don’t know. I choose self checkout whenever I can but at Costco it’s inconvenient because they don’t have handheld scanners to use by customers. I have never come across any hostility.

Fwiw it’s $200 per person max but it’s a great support for the two of us.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:People are completely comfortable with the billions that the rich receive for welfare. They just hate poor people, so that's where all the anger is directed. Mad at the person getting $150/month in SNAP instead of the welfare/subsidies going to keep corporations afloat while the CEO's are paid record profits.

Absolutely right 👍🏻

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The cashier at Target basically told the customer in front of me, my register doesn’t not accept welfare money loudly.
It’s not the first time cashiers have try to embarrass people out loud.

That person should be fired. I hope you told the manager.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I am on SNAP. I have a child who is old enough to be in school for me to work, but I don’t have a requirement to work. There are many women who have kids but don’t work or work very little on SNAP. I do work, but definitely do a lot of wage planning - to not earn too much to receive any benefits.
As for the cashier, I don’t know. I choose self checkout whenever I can but at Costco it’s inconvenient because they don’t have handheld scanners to use by customers. I have never come across any hostility.

Fwiw it’s $200 per person max but it’s a great support for the two of us.

You’re on SNAP and have time to read DCUM and read about rich Bethesda complaints? How do you relate to the craziness that is their first world problems?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Weird. I assumed most cashiers are on some form of assistance too. They don't make livable wages to where they could survive without some form of help.

This feels like a troll post, though.

What is enough to "survive?" I've worked very low wage jobs before. I "survived" but I lived a pretty meager life. The cheapest of food, no vacations ever, no cable (this was years before streaming services.) Tiny, cheap apartment in a bad neighborhood, shared with a roommate.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Weird. I assumed most cashiers are on some form of assistance too. They don't make livable wages to where they could survive without some form of help.

This feels like a troll post, though.

I don’t think it’s a troll post. I once had a cashier ask me, not the person in front of me, not the person behind me, but me if I was “paying with EBT”, at the time I had no idea what that was so asked him and he said “food stamps are you paying with govt food stamps”. I snorted and laughed out loud. And in my best got any grey poupon voice “No, I do not have an EBT card, but please do tell me where and how I can get one of those, food is expensive. Unbelievable you mean that the govt will give me a card with money on it and I can use it to buy food. I’d love one of those. Sign me up .”

Lol… I thought it was very amusing… and cute because I think the cashier was trying to put me in my place.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yep pp hit it on the nose. The cashier is mad because they are a cashier and needs to lord it over someone.

At least the cashier is working and doing a job.

I'm not saying OP could be working but uses welfare as an excuse to not work, but there are absolutely many many people who are capable of working, but would rather be paid (via welfare) to not work.

There are of course some people who legitimately cannot work and need welfare.

Everyone I know who gets SNAP benefits IS working. You have a greave misunderstanding of how government assistance works if you think people are out here living large on it in the DC area.

Welfare.was supposed to be limited to 5 years. But didn't DC decide to supplement it so you can essentially live on welfare forever?

[Anonymous]

If you can convince yourself and others that the poor are fundamentally bad instead of just unlucky, you can reassure yourself that it won't happen to you and also that you don't have an obligation to help.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I am on SNAP. I have a child who is old enough to be in school for me to work, but I don’t have a requirement to work. There are many women who have kids but don’t work or work very little on SNAP. I do work, but definitely do a lot of wage planning - to not earn too much to receive any benefits.
As for the cashier, I don’t know. I choose self checkout whenever I can but at Costco it’s inconvenient because they don’t have handheld scanners to use by customers. I have never come across any hostility.

Fwiw it’s $200 per person max but it’s a great support for the two of us.

You’re on SNAP and have time to read DCUM and read about rich Bethesda complaints? How do you relate to the craziness that is their first world problems?

NP. Yes, even people on SNAP can find the time to browse the Internet at 8 pm on a Sunday, you f-ing clown.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Weird. I assumed most cashiers are on some form of assistance too. They don't make livable wages to where they could survive without some form of help.

This feels like a troll post, though.

I don’t think it’s a troll post. I once had a cashier ask me, not the person in front of me, not the person behind me, but me if I was “paying with EBT”, at the time I had no idea what that was so asked him and he said “food stamps are you paying with govt food stamps”. I snorted and laughed out loud. And in my best got any grey poupon voice “No, I do not have an EBT card, but please do tell me where and how I can get one of those, food is expensive. Unbelievable you mean that the govt will give me a card with money on it and I can use it to buy food. I’d love one of those. Sign me up .”

Lol… I thought it was very amusing… and cute because I think the cashier was trying to put me in my place.

That is so not amusing. But way to put the cashier in her place. It makes her job just that much more pleasant.