Ag with kids said:BigRobSA said:Gilligan said:aggiebrad94 said:
People used to WANT to get off welfare. There was a social stigma to it.
This! In the late 70's we were on food stamps and there were separate lines in the school cafeteria for free breakfast and .25 lunches.
Served a LOT of knuckle sandwiches from all the crap received from being in those lines.
Bring back the stigma! It's motivating.
My mother was dying of cancer, and thusly, couldn't work (in the late 70s) and we were on food stamps. Definitely a stigma. She made my lunches, so no free school lunches (plus she loved me, so she fought for me to get a scholarship to a private, Lutheran school).
We make it too easy for people to abuse the system.
Lutheran, ese?
Aren't y'all all Catholic?
Story doesn't check out.
Yes.
But no Catholic schools close to where we were, and my mom (white) converted to Catholicism from Lutheranism when she met my father (brown).
Funnily, I still went to CCD and she was, for one or two grades, my CCD teacher.
We were the poster children for a helping hand, as she STILL would bake cakes and such, on the side, to make extra money for things. You know, the couple weeks a month she wasn't either on radiation or chemo. She would have MUCH rather been able to work (almost had her PHD before I popped out) as opposed to bed-ridden and terminal.
So, as you can understand, I have a special hatred for generational leeches.