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[Psych]

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[pokemon: best wishes]

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[Fievel Goes West]

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Yeah I'm always confused by people claiming they're going to quit their job and live on welfare because Obama! Honestly, I want them to go and do that and see, it's not luxury living. It's barely living if all you have coming in is welfare. Jeebus.

+100000 I actually wish that a requirement to hold office is living off of welfare, and only welfare, for a few months. They'd have to go through the application process with next to nothing to live off of until they were approved. Then they could only spend food stamps, and live somewhere they could afford on welfare. That way maybe politians would stop encouraging the idea that welfare is easy to get/easy to live on. It would hopefully also give them better insight into the difficulties of being that poor.

Wouldn't their family also suffer? That doesn't seem fair (unless you mean that they would be isolated and forced to do it alone). Or what if they have life saving medication they need to pay for? It doesn't seem right to literally endanger someone's life to teach them a lesson

or maybe you weren't actually being serious and I'll just be quiet

Heck, just going through the application process is harrowing.

Relocate them to rural areas where agencies are located in one part of the county that might be miles and miles from them and take away their transportation and see how they navigate that.

I'm with you there. The application process is harsh. And trying to get to the appointments can be impossible. And even then if you're on the version of welfare that helps with money, CalWorks, you can only remain on it for a certain number of months months in a row and then you have to be off for quite a while, I think it's 24 months. With a lifetime total of 60 months (I'm sure of that). It's not possible to be on it forever if there isn't a daaaaaaaaamn good reason. And that reason must be proved repeatedly and will be constantly challenged.

And to keep it? A one-parent family, the parent must work at least 32 hours weekly either at a job, vocational training or community service work to receive benefits. Two parents must work a total of 35 hours weekly. And they want to see proof of you applying for work. In my community this has lead to a lot of people having to apply for work at places they aren't qualified to work at, and applying every other month (sometimes every month) at businesses that keep applications on record. These businesses have gotten so annoyed that they've flat out said they won't hire people who apply that often because they're wasting the companies time by coming in that frequently. It's a pretty sad cycle.

And now I'm rambling on, I shouldn't start posting on this subject this late/early. I have strong feelings here.

I am just nodding along and nodding along at what you're saying here.

It is very hard to apply for and to keep these kinds of benefits, and they're not enough to live on. They're not intended to be. They're intended to be supplemental.

Welfare fraud does exist, but it generally occurs on the administrative side or the store side rather than the individual person side.

How anyone can suggest that people are just clamoring to be on welfare because it's so awesome is beyond me.

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