From Melissa McEwan,the truth.I agree with her completely: The people who constantly bray this fairy tale of lazy moochers who cruise through life on government benefits are so out of touch with multiple realities—how difficult it is to secure long-term payments (e.g. disability); how difficult it is to live on government welfare; how many people who desperately need welfare arent getting it because they dont qualify; how many people are desperate for work they can do; how many places in the US simply dont have enough jobs with livable wages to support the community anymore—that their ignorance, willful or otherwise, would be laughable if it werent so unfathomably harmful. And then there is this: Poverty is extremely difficult. It is stressful, demoralizing, exhausting. Poverty is not for lazy people. No one is getting rich, or even living a carefree life, on the paltry sums that constitute government benefits in the US. The only lazy people in this discussion are the ones who repeat ad nauseam the reprehensible lie that unemployed people are shiftless takers, because thats a hell of a lot easier than just admitting their theory that making life difficult for unemployed people will force them to get a job is rank garbage. Like the rest of their fantastical contentions underwriting their contemptible policies.
Posted on: Mon, 22 Sep 2014 15:42:04 +0000