Quote:Having the ability to make a phone call is what you call comfort?


Cash assistance doesn't come from the government on some unlimited basis, and unemployment benefits require prior employment, not to mention they aren't unlimited.


It's an ongoing problem that there's a perception that poor people have it too easy. Unless your idea is we should be grinding them and their children up to make soylent green then they definitely don't have it good or easy.


Everything about society is designed to punish and humiliate people for being poor (remember Rick Scott's welfare drug testing?), while what is needed is a level of respect for every person and a system that truly does try to give people a chance at a leg up.

If you don't think entitlements aren't easily and rampantly abused then you're delusional. Odb showed how easy it was years ago on mtv. I've witnessed it many times over. If I lacked integrity and principle, I could get $6000-$10,000 in government funds right now by telling a little white lie that could never be disproved.

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