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ChatteParfaitt -> RE: Welfare benefit scroungers - the evidence just doesn't add up. (12/3/2012 3:15:00 AM)
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Here is some evidence of scroungers from my little world. I live on a street that is, on the far end of me, has several large homes which have been broken up into sec 8 housing.
These are (ostensibly) filled with women with children, pregnant females, etc. Here is an example of what I have *personally* seen in the last four years or so.
On family consisting of an adult female, her teen-aged daughter, the daughter's female child along with one male who the adult female called her 'husband.'
The husband worked for Fed-ex and drove a brand new truck and a motorbike. The adult female bought a brand new car during the time she lived there. The teen also worked (I'm not sure where, I think it must have been under the table), and also had a car, though it was not new.
All of these people wore high quality, clean clothes in the latest fashion, including the toddler. They were all well fed. The adult female (the only one who didn't work, aside from the toddler) was morbidly obese, which caused her pulmonary problems to the point she was on oxygen. Whatever healthcare this unemployed female had allowed for weekly oxygen delivery to her home. This is a small town, so I've seen both females in this example use food stamps. Despite that these people were very clean in their person, the front porch they used was a health hazard, and I can't imagine the inside of their apt being much better. At least once a week the toddler was bought an expensive toy she broke and then discarded onto the porch or the yard.
I understand how the unemployed and obviously disabled female required assistance, and won't even get into the fact that her situation was caused entirely by her own behavior. But tell me please, why would someone who works for Fedex need sec 8 housing? (Most especially since he had a lucrative pot selling sideline.)
The daughter with the toddler was young, fit and very healthy. The baby's father was in the picture at least some times, though I have no idea if he paid child support. In any case, the daughter worked AND took benefit as well. She had no children care costs as the adult couple watched the toddler while she worked.
This is a family where receiving welfare benefit is considered a 'right.' They lived very well, much better than others on my street who don't receive benefit. The adult female lived with a man who (for Indiana) was relatively well paid. Yet she received benefits including health care, and her daughter received the same.
Sorry, I call them welfare scroungers without any problem at all.
Who wants another example? I have plenty.
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