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- 4 de Oct, 2016
To be honest, many of the same screaming about “pulling yourself up by your bootstraps” are exactly as poor as the people they’re angry at. The difference is they think they’re just temporarily downtrodden. They lost a job, got sick, had an emergency, got arrested, were addicted, had a baby alone, but like. They’re not going to be down forever. They’re not like that welfare queen who owns a Benz but no one can produce.This reminds me of something I have seen constantly on threads in this site. And I will say it here.
I've seen a few claims saying "people should get jobs and pull themselves out of poverty and get out of reliance on SNAP or government assistance or government housing."
Cool idea. But there's just one problem. I'm going to be very realistic. When you're born in poverty, it is very hard to get out of it. And a lot of people on assistance are disabled, mentally and physically. Which means they can't work. Some can. And some can't. Most people I know can't. And not because they want to just not work. This is what you will see a lot in section 8. You have to be below the poverty line to even live there. You can't get out of poverty when you're below it.
Yes there are some that I know of that had kids to get more EBT or welfare, but tbh, it's a small percentage.
I'm sorry but a lot of the times you can't just magically get out of poverty. From what I witnessed growing up poor, you are poor for life. And it's not by choice. I know a lot of people who want to get out but real life has pretty much fucked them over.
It happens. And realistically, you just deal with it and try to take what you get to survive, which is just living within your means.
A large swath of the right have also been taught there is shame in accepting federal assistance. Like the shit they pay their (meager) taxes into is somehow below them. It’s like paying for Netflix but never watching because it’s shit. My grandma had several situations at the end of her life that required her to enroll in a few programs. It was insane how hard it was to get her to accept SNAP, honestly not until it was explained that her husband had paid into this shit for years through taxes, and she wasn’t being a leech but taking advantage of something she is entitled to.
Like my 95 yr old Grandma could go get a job. She knew there was no other option but she had to be validated by us that she was not like those “bad ones”.