Posted on 12/26/2009 5:02:53 PM PST by Publius772000
On Christmas Eve, I, my three small children, and my wife, who works the graveyard shift at a truck stop to supplement our meager income, visited our local Kroger store to pick up a loaf of frozen garlic bread to go with dinner. I refrain from writing much about myself in this blog, as it seems somewhat egotistic to assume anyone would want to read about my personal life. However, on this particular night, we ended up checking out behind a group of ladies. Their hair was newly done, obviously at a salon. Each of them had had their fingernails professionally manicured. They wore expensive leather jackets. They were buying steak, chips, soda, and a cart overflowing with other items, all name brand. No Kroger or Great Value brand for them.
Their total? $170. They paid for $11 of it in cash. The other $159? The leader of the group whipped out her trusty EBT/SNAP card and scanned it through.
Now I know that there are those of you who couldn’t care less about such anecdotes. Live and let live, you say. But it bothered me. Each of these women wore clothing that was worth more than anything I or my wife own. Each of them had been pampered lately. It’s been years since my wife was able to afford a professional haircut, much less a trip to a salon. She’s never had her nails done. Yet these women, despite all this, paid for the vast majority of their “essentials”–including steak which I’m also unable to afford except on amazingly rare occasions, such as birthdays that end in a zero–with money supplied by taxes taken out of the paychecks of me, my wife, and people like us.
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I know here in AZ you have to fill out a lot of paperwork, show copies of bank statements, utility statements, auto titles, pay stubs, birth certificates, list all of your expenses, assets, etc.
Usually it is, but it increases their eligibility if they’re not married. So, you’ll have two people living together, unmarried, but sharing an income - in which case only one is recorded.
So true, being a “single mom” has become an entitlement. No questions asked, don’t bother to check if the boyfriend is living in the apartment. This is a way of life.
One of the things that really angers me is the section 8 and subsidized housing that has been built since the Great Society programs of LBJ. We have spend BILLIONS on government housing. The Democrat controlled welfare/housing/medicaid bureaucracies do not care to investigate who is abusing the system.
And since you evoked the name of LBJ, when will we finally declare an exit strategy from the “War on Poverty”? Where is Harry Reid to declare we’ve lost? Wait, would Obamacare then be considered the Surge? Hmmm...
“Powdered garlic is only acceptable if you are cooking something in liquid and then only in emergency.”
I’m afraid I must insist that garlic powder is the hallmark of the bad cook, and never acceptable. Sorry to be contrary.
Now, as for “awake”...What in the world is his problem?
Looks as if AZ looks at it pretty close, but I imagine that there are many ways people have found to get around it.
Interesting many people residing at same address and only claiming one income.
Yes you’re right, teaching assistants have jobs. I guess what upset me was seeing how easily intelligent, bright people were avoiding employment by hanging on to the universities as a way to live by their wits, long after they have gotten an “education,” using every government handout they could get and the realization that our increasing dependency on government has become a way of life for them. That it’s not just the urban poor who have become dependent on government, it is the middle class as well.
There is actually a book out detailing all of the “free” stuff you can get from the government. I believe this was advertised on tv some time ago.
While we can agree that garlic salt is an abomination and a offense against both God and man powdered garlic does have it's place albeit in very few dishes and under very limited circumstances. When you are in such straits as to be forced to use other dried herbs or (shudder!) dried onions, garlic power is acceptable.
As for awake, I have not the foggiest idea. Not enough fiber in his diet? Some people are just grouchy.
“powdered garlic does have it’s place albeit in very few dishes and under very limited”
Well, I’d have to be shown.
LOL!
I asked myself this question just today... I also was kinda harsh and unloaded on another FReeper discussing the $60,000,000 in government cheese "handouts" because of it.
Anyhow, I am grateful my wife is able to breastfeed our son. Money was a little tight this year and a day after Christmas (today) our basement flooded. So I sighed and went to the hardware store. My wife called me and asked if I'd get some baby food (our son is just starting to supplement breastmilk with baby food). I had $9 in my pocket and was trying to do mental math to figure out how much I could buy and still pay cash rather than swipe the bank card. I found a box of smal jars for $7.99 that was equivalent to getting two jars free.
I went to the register to pay and the cashier was frantically searching the shelf underneath for more powdered formuala. The customer ahead of me was barely 23 year old single mother flicking a tongue ring in and out of her mouth and obviously tired of waiting for the cashier to stack 9 large cans onto the conveyor. She gave an annoyed sigh and a "that's fine" to the apologetic cashier explaining there were "only 9 cans." The single mother then presented two WIC vouchers to "pay" for over $100 in baby formuala.
The whole way home I fumed. Here I am busting my tail scrimping and saving, my wife clipping coupons and scouring sales ads for deals on food; going light on Christmas for our kids and trying to stay out of debt... while we pay other's laziness, incompetence, and promiscuity.
I don't know whether to divorce my wife (in the eyes of the State) and live of "assistance" trying to suck the beast dry, or stop working and live off the grid. Either way this working to sustain the frivolous lifestyle of others business sucks. They are fast approaching the point where they've ran out of my money....
To quote Jerry Reed "...they have made a mistake because it adds up to more than this cowboy makes."
single mothers are women who at least didn’t kill their unborn.....remember that......
he's been sitting on his ass since his 40's and she joined him in her early 50's.....not too disabled to travel and gamble though...
income?....these people are not the exception....they are the rule....once they manage to sneak into the system everything is theirs....even down to the handicapped parking spot .....
this world is full of crazy arrogant selfish people like these kids mother.....I can't explain it ....mothers are supposed to be like grizzly bears protecting their cubs yet sometimes they mistreat their own children.....sad....
There were many days my wife and I tried to figure out how we would afford to feed our youngest, who refused to breastfeed consistently. We scraped it together, cut out every possible inessential part of the budget, and made it work, without government assistance. If only the federal government used the same mentality when it formulated its budget...
THey are still sluts.....
Put me in the "pin head" category - though I'm against all forms of "forced charity", if it's going to be given out anyway, I'd rather see it going to "my" people instead of some 6th generation inner-city welfare recipient or some mexican who strolled across the border yesterday.
This attitude is kind of justified, don't you think? After all, I figure somewhere between 95-100 percent of that money is extracted from whitey.
Wow.. that is amazing. I guess that it happens in every state once you know how to play the system.
Looked at the AZ State Gov. site, does not look that easy.
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