 chestnut501 says: By a Social Worker who knows Speak that truth. I see all the same details of poverty everyday and each described trend; I tell anyone who will listen that our poverty systems were designed by Marquis de Sade and get a tiny number of Americans who express concern. I love those people for redeeming the soul of America. The others are usually also okay with torture. Hmm. Seems that being a "young" country, the US has to evolve a lot to get to a stage where everyone has equal rights to education, health, unemployment aid, etc. In the meantime the Government is doing its best to dismantle all such things in favour of bailouts and wars. How about this: a person can be on Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI), automatically entitling one to Medicare (with a heavy deductible that discourages one from seeking care until it's really urgent), and still have an income level too high to receive Medicaid. This meant, until Part D was enacted, no prescription coverage and still means no dental care. This means that you can have medicine, routine care and even fairly major surgery covered - with that nasty deductable - and have your teeth rotting in your gums. Exactly. This is the biggest bunch of $%^#. Oh, I am sure everyone one of us is mean spirited. I am sure that there must be some people way up in Government who sit around rubbing their hands together wondering how best to screw poor people. I guess we should not hire fraud investigators so that our tax money gets disbursed to those who shouldn't be getting it. Government spending on social programs has not been shrinking. And nobody is purposefully designing systems to degrade poor people. If you take money from the Government there will be strings attached, forms to sign and your personal life will be investigated. Which should be enough to get many poor people off the dole and into work. ... Awesome, my book on poverty will be pages of putting silly to shame. Documents straight from the poverty programs that do not try to punish the poor. My favorite...when I was charged with child neglect when I was age 12. That happens outside poor communities all the time, right? No, hmm. Another example: having poor children be in foster care rather than help their parents. That doesn't happen. Oh wait, there is evidence that it does. Thanks for the added motivation, SS man, I can pull up your BS when I need energy to keep the writing going. And scanning of documents to prove you wrong yet again. dmegivern, are you actually from the US? Or are you from a foreign country, living in the US? Your pattern of speech would imply that you are not a native English speaker, and that you grew up in another culture. Your idiomatic constructions are interesting... It is clear that you come from a culture that believes it is all right to put small children to work. In the US, children should be in school, not working to support their parents. It is the job of parents to support children, not the other way around. Tragic situations such as illness or injury aside, parents should be moving heaven and earth to provide for their kids, not bemoaning the fact that US laws prohibit the exploitati... @sillysam You seem all for a "full cavity search" for a single mom who needs a few dollars, so why don't you ask for the same level of inquiry from the wall street bankers, the ceos, etc who ask for billions from the same taxpayers? Personally, I'd rather give my tax money to the single mom. I work full time and my $400 @ 2wks paycheck goes to bills. Now at the New Year - My Food Stamps has been cut. Seems I make too much money. Life SUX! I will die hungry, In Pain and humiliated. Thanx. @demos That "strange speech pattern" is the result of education. It's understandable why it would seem foreign to you. Also, you make many baseless assumptions, and, well, they make an ass out of you... Why do you criticize poor people without ever having walked in their shoes, yet give a free pass to the thieves robbing the taxpayers out of billions? Shills are easy to spot. Ill be watching you. Thanks PM. I am saving the comments for my collection of rants against poor people. Plus, the assumptions that were made ARE hilarious. Makes the person seem like an even bigger ass next to the facts. P.S. Born in the western U.S.A. and raised in the Midwest. Other theories about language? @PM, From my memory, the only CPS worker that ever seemed genuinely interested in the well-being of children was Elizabeth Branstad Peterson, remember her? Anyhow, she died *very* young, in her 40s. If you really care about the families you work with, child protection work will probably shorten your life. @dmegivern, people like Demosthenes Locke start out by finding ways to marginalize others, make them outsiders. Once that otherness is established, it's easier to treat a person as less than human. From there, all other abuse follows from that smug feeling of superiority. Almost makes you want to feel sorry for that weasel...(hah!). |
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