Welfare is another one of those things that self righteous people get their panties in a bunch about. They get all uptight because a person like me uses food stamps without a thought except that "THEY don't get help from the state, and "THEIR" tax dollars are being used up to feed my sorry ass.
Back up the bus!
I was a tax payer before I got hurt.
I had to give my life's story to get those food stamps. The state did everything but go through my closet and smell my dirty panties before they "gave" me $56.00 dollars worth of food stamps.
Two months ago they took away my food stamps. The government in all it's wisdom, gave people like me a raise of $13.00 a month. That put me over some limit so the state took the whole $56.00 worth of food stamps away. I can reapply for those food stamps, but I was already told that it wouldn't matter, I was over the limit.
Which brings me to the way state and federal government spends money. Ummm, "your money, and yes, "my" money.
If I went back to my home town, I could receive $150.00 in food stamps, Food stamps is a federal program, I don't know why some states are more generous than others. but the $$amount with the same circumstances varies widely.
I would also be provided with housing... a new one bedroom townhouse, with a fenced yard, water, sewer, garbage included with rent, $10.00 extra for cable. Rent would be 25% on my income. Of course, no one, not even my Golden Child or The Darling One, or the Ggrand baby, could spend more than one night with me. I couldn't keep the grand kids for a weekend or in case of an emergency, keep them for a week if one of their parents had to be in the hospital for example. And the State of Michigan would be so far up my butt, I'd have to ask permission to use the toilet.
Low income housing here has a ten year waiting list. Even if someone dies, there are hundreds of people ahead of me on the list of people who need housing. Ya have to "know" someone to get into housing. What's offered is less than how I want to live. I looked, I saw, I refused. More like prisons than places to live and thrive. 1 room apartments without enough space to swing a cat. and all the restrictions mentioned above. I'd rather live under a freeway overpass.
To get back to the way the government spends money. Only about 1/10 of the money spent on welfare programs goes to the needy clients. The rest is spent on paychecks for the "caseworkers" for rent on the buildings that the caseworkers work in. and heat, and for the phones those people never answer. Don't forget the office furniture, computers, and the paper. Also people to clean those offices and huge warehouses to store all the paperwork and files these people collect.
Every three months, while I was getting food stamps, I recieved a 4 page notice, on state stationary, with the state logo printed on the top of each page in green, saying the same thing on all 4 pages, reminding me that if I had a change of circumstances, I was required by law to notify the state department of health and welfare of those changes, and if I didn't like it, I could ask for a hearing about what I didn't agree with. Oh Yeah, and if I didn't understand my "rights" I could ask for someone to help me and a legal representative would be assigned to me.
4 pages. count em'4 pages. In the three years I got food stamps, I think the paper sent to me must have equaled at least six trees. For $56 dollars worth of food stamps.
The welfare system would be better off and cost less, if in every city there was one guy with a check writing machine and a card table, where anyone in dire need could walk up and tell the guy how much you need and get a check. No paper work, no offices, no 4 page notices, and even if a cheater got cash they didn't need, the state would still come out ahead. Why, I might even be able to get the 56. dollars in food stamps back. It wasn't much, but it sure helped.
Back up the bus!
I was a tax payer before I got hurt.
I had to give my life's story to get those food stamps. The state did everything but go through my closet and smell my dirty panties before they "gave" me $56.00 dollars worth of food stamps.
Two months ago they took away my food stamps. The government in all it's wisdom, gave people like me a raise of $13.00 a month. That put me over some limit so the state took the whole $56.00 worth of food stamps away. I can reapply for those food stamps, but I was already told that it wouldn't matter, I was over the limit.
Which brings me to the way state and federal government spends money. Ummm, "your money, and yes, "my" money.
If I went back to my home town, I could receive $150.00 in food stamps, Food stamps is a federal program, I don't know why some states are more generous than others. but the $$amount with the same circumstances varies widely.
I would also be provided with housing... a new one bedroom townhouse, with a fenced yard, water, sewer, garbage included with rent, $10.00 extra for cable. Rent would be 25% on my income. Of course, no one, not even my Golden Child or The Darling One, or the Ggrand baby, could spend more than one night with me. I couldn't keep the grand kids for a weekend or in case of an emergency, keep them for a week if one of their parents had to be in the hospital for example. And the State of Michigan would be so far up my butt, I'd have to ask permission to use the toilet.
Low income housing here has a ten year waiting list. Even if someone dies, there are hundreds of people ahead of me on the list of people who need housing. Ya have to "know" someone to get into housing. What's offered is less than how I want to live. I looked, I saw, I refused. More like prisons than places to live and thrive. 1 room apartments without enough space to swing a cat. and all the restrictions mentioned above. I'd rather live under a freeway overpass.
To get back to the way the government spends money. Only about 1/10 of the money spent on welfare programs goes to the needy clients. The rest is spent on paychecks for the "caseworkers" for rent on the buildings that the caseworkers work in. and heat, and for the phones those people never answer. Don't forget the office furniture, computers, and the paper. Also people to clean those offices and huge warehouses to store all the paperwork and files these people collect.
Every three months, while I was getting food stamps, I recieved a 4 page notice, on state stationary, with the state logo printed on the top of each page in green, saying the same thing on all 4 pages, reminding me that if I had a change of circumstances, I was required by law to notify the state department of health and welfare of those changes, and if I didn't like it, I could ask for a hearing about what I didn't agree with. Oh Yeah, and if I didn't understand my "rights" I could ask for someone to help me and a legal representative would be assigned to me.
4 pages. count em'4 pages. In the three years I got food stamps, I think the paper sent to me must have equaled at least six trees. For $56 dollars worth of food stamps.
The welfare system would be better off and cost less, if in every city there was one guy with a check writing machine and a card table, where anyone in dire need could walk up and tell the guy how much you need and get a check. No paper work, no offices, no 4 page notices, and even if a cheater got cash they didn't need, the state would still come out ahead. Why, I might even be able to get the 56. dollars in food stamps back. It wasn't much, but it sure helped.
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