Why I am talking about welfare is this... welfare didn't come along until Germany invented it in 1890s.. The UK didn't have it so unemployed UK people and orphans to, had no other choice than to steal, get themselves caught, then deported to the USA and later Australia.
There is no excuse to steal THESE DAYS when hard working tax payers give you a handout between jobs.
Not everyone gets a "handout," and often those that do don't get enough to pay rent, utilies, and eat.
Shes talking about Australia.
Here in America they certainly DO get enough to pay rent, eat, for child care and medical costs.
The problem is they are forced to stay single and poor because so much as a dollar raise will result in them losing so much of their benefits that they will be thrown right in the gutter. It's a viscious cycle and holds poor people hostage to the state.
This is why women often wont marry the father of their child and why women will continue having children. So they dont end up in the streets over a 50 cent raise.
I grew up poor and I've watched this happen. My grandmother was passionately opposed to welfare and refused it on the basis that it was state slavery. In my early 20s when I got pregnant I had to go on Medicaid(our state funded insurance program that was destroyed by Obama care). I also took food benefits and WIC. As soon as I started making "too much" to qualify, the benefits were pulled and shit became insanely harder. I wasnt making nearly enough to live in any sort of area where I was comfortable having a child. But I had too much to get any sort of meaningful help. You can bet I still had taxes taken out of my wages though.
I never touched the shit again. It's a horrible cycle designed to keep people poor as fuck. This is where many young women like I was resort to some level of the sex industry. I'm glad I dont have to explain to you how NOT empowering that is. How its NOT a real "choice" that "empowers" any woman.
If we actually had decent oversight and "weaned" people off according to their income....allowed people to obtain skills and make more money without losing everything.....like we should be doing IF we are gonna do anything....we wouldnt have the problems we have. We would have less people scamming it as well. We should be supporting FAMILIES as well, and not refusing to help couples with children. People have gotten divorced JUST to get food and insurance.
You have no idea how many people sell their food benefits so they can buy drugs or some other bullshit. Our socialized systems are fucked and mismanaged and do harm.
My mother is on disability and SS....and she gets spousal support. Shes not allowed to have more than 2k in her bank account at the end of the month. Shes gotta have 1,999 at the MOST. She cannot have any assets. Its ridiculous. Its just crazy to me that she cant save anything over that amount. So she cant have a squirrel fund.....she was legit spending her "excess" on bullshit just to meet that state imposed standard. My mother never used welfare either. She was mentally ill poor kid who fell through the cracks and marinated there for decades.
We can judge people until the cows come home for everything from laziness to entitlement to calloused selfishness, whatever. But at the end of the day, people of all status are gonna do whatever they need to do to survive, so none of that matters. Politicains and government knows this and exploits it through power grabby socailist programs that do more to make the rich richer and keep the poor and working scratching and voting and hoping.
It would be a great start to start truly listening to eachother and uniting enough to overthrow a system that doesnt at all serve ANY of us.....but rather benefits itself off the backs of human suffering and ego.
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