koshergrl
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Welfare is not meant to eliminate the tough choices, or provide a care free living. It is meant to keep children off the streets and from starving for the amount of time it takes their parent to figure out how to provide for them herself.
I've had to choose between electricity and food, or going to the doctor and rent. My mother also made those choices. I didn't go to a dentist regularly growing up, I didn't get regular dental care because POOR PEOPLE DIDN'T HAVE MONEY FOR THOSE THINGS. Welfare doesn't mean suddenly all your needs and desires are meant. It means you are in such dire straits you are in danger of starving and living on the street.
This woman did not provide reasonable care. I get calls all the time from clients who say "I've left message after message and nobody has called me back!" and they ARE LYING. I have voicemail, I know who calls, and when. No, you probably won't get an answer if you call at noon or after 5 or on a weekend, or at 4:45. And you won't get a call back if you don't leave a number, or don't have your cell turned on, or don't pick up, or leave a message number that doesn't pick up. Does that mean you give up? NO. It means you make yourself available, it means you KEEP CALLING, it means you bring your happy ass down to the office and sit there until you get some attention.
Welfare offices have hearings requests strewn like confetti throughout their offices, and the federal government requires they be processed immediately. Welfare offices have the numbers to the GOVERNOR'S ADVOCACY OFFICE posted prominently in their offices. All government workers have supervisors who take complaints and act upon them promptly.
This woman did nothing until her kid was dead. She didn't make a reasonable effort to take care of the problem or to draw it to the attention of anyone. She was locked into making one person fix everything, too lazy to seek other avenues of assistance in a system that is GEARED towards providing assistance to EVERYBODY. That is lazy, stupid, and criminal.
She is the only one to blame. If you don't like the system, get the hell out of it. It's not supposed to be and will never be cushy and fun to be on welfare. It's not a premium system with limitless money and resources meant to remove responsibility from parents and eliminate all the difficulty that goes with poverty.
I've had to choose between electricity and food, or going to the doctor and rent. My mother also made those choices. I didn't go to a dentist regularly growing up, I didn't get regular dental care because POOR PEOPLE DIDN'T HAVE MONEY FOR THOSE THINGS. Welfare doesn't mean suddenly all your needs and desires are meant. It means you are in such dire straits you are in danger of starving and living on the street.
This woman did not provide reasonable care. I get calls all the time from clients who say "I've left message after message and nobody has called me back!" and they ARE LYING. I have voicemail, I know who calls, and when. No, you probably won't get an answer if you call at noon or after 5 or on a weekend, or at 4:45. And you won't get a call back if you don't leave a number, or don't have your cell turned on, or don't pick up, or leave a message number that doesn't pick up. Does that mean you give up? NO. It means you make yourself available, it means you KEEP CALLING, it means you bring your happy ass down to the office and sit there until you get some attention.
Welfare offices have hearings requests strewn like confetti throughout their offices, and the federal government requires they be processed immediately. Welfare offices have the numbers to the GOVERNOR'S ADVOCACY OFFICE posted prominently in their offices. All government workers have supervisors who take complaints and act upon them promptly.
This woman did nothing until her kid was dead. She didn't make a reasonable effort to take care of the problem or to draw it to the attention of anyone. She was locked into making one person fix everything, too lazy to seek other avenues of assistance in a system that is GEARED towards providing assistance to EVERYBODY. That is lazy, stupid, and criminal.
She is the only one to blame. If you don't like the system, get the hell out of it. It's not supposed to be and will never be cushy and fun to be on welfare. It's not a premium system with limitless money and resources meant to remove responsibility from parents and eliminate all the difficulty that goes with poverty.
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