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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]who is on welfare for generations?

[b]also, who wants to be on welfare for the majority of their lives?[/b]

finally, do you even know how much welfare/unemployment provides someone anyway? people act as if you receive six figures on public assistance and live in plush neighborhoods and drive SUVs.

public assistance isnt the fabulous life. stop acting as if people want to live on that and even more importantly live great off the public dime. its totally wrong[/quote]

Are you kidding?  I know 3 of my husband's immediate family who are proud of their wonderful welfare lifestyle.

First cousin grew up in a KY housing project.  Lived in the same section 8 apartment her entire life.  She did a brief 6 year stint in the military, got knocked up twice by a married man, got out of the military and has been living in the same projects right down the street from her childhood home for the past 6 years.  When asked what she was going to do when child support stopped..."I guess I'll have to get a job if my check (welfare I guess?) doesn't go up."

Next cousin (NOT a sibling of cousin #1) lives in the same section 8 village with her 6 (yes SIX!) kids and hubby.  They see the doctor more than the rest of my family can afford to, because they have "the card".  Neither parent has worked for the past 4 years.  Cousin has been a student, living on pell grants and hubby does bike repairs on the side for extra money.

Next cousin (sibling to #2) just got a $4000 pell grant check somehow and is buying a car with it.  I didn't even know you could get pell grant checks, I thought it just paid tuition, but I guess not.  He lives at home and uses his $200/month food stamps to support the rest of the family living there.

They are all more than happy to live off welfare as long as they possibly can.  I can't believe they're not embarrassed to all be able-bodied (all younger than 30-35) and living and raising a family in such a God-awful place.  But they're proud they're able to be "stay at home parents" and "getting an education" on someone else's dime.

I don't think they live plush lifestyles at all.  In fact, I know from visiting them 20 years ago, they're living in roach infested hell-holes.  But they don't care, because they've got Obama phones, and $15 power bills, and no co-pay doctor visits, and huge groups of welfare friends outside their houses, and they're not busting their asses at work, but rather had their kids down at the water park every day this summer because some church member was nice enough to donate a few pool memberships last year.

I see this first hand, so it's hard for me to separate out that there's really people out there that are just using it as a short term crutch.  And it's really naive for you to believe there aren't people taking advantage and enjoying that crappy lifestyle.[/quote]

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