Yep, @WarWiz . But I'm not a native.

@DishonoredRonin. That’s not too terrible, as long as you have retirment and savings

Oh I'm native and have benefits but don't use them

I don't, @DonkDonkJuanHundo All my money and savings went into medical to KEEP me working.

It depends on where you live. In most cities, that 500 a month won't even cover rent.

Oh, sorry about that big time then. I cant imagine that. Sorry about you situation

S'okay. My point is, some people are on EBT because they don't have a choice.

I *HATE* not working.

That's true and others make a career out of it

Agreed.

Yeah. I guess so @DishonoredRonin

goes back to screening and efficiency

Yeah, in some cases (like yours) I don't have an issue with it. It definitely needs to be monitored better though, because if there was less fraud, we'd be able to help the people that actually need it more

And I agree completely, @mikeflarkin

Exactly and the people that actually need it won't have a hard time getting it

Sometimes I'm not sure where I'm really at on the political compass lol because I think some college should be free (or at least free to a point).

Specifically trade schools.

Did you know if you're on Disability, you can't have savings? At least not over a certain amount?

sorry i stepped away for a minute, but @DishonoredRonin despite what i said earlier, when it comes to a case like yours, i support you being on it. When someone REALLY needs help, im more than happy for them to get it, but its the people that use it just because, or overstay their welcome that im against.

@DishonoredRonin. I am completely fine with my taxes going to someone with your condition. A physical condition that they can’t help. Same with nursing homes and thing of that sort. The biggest problem is when people who just don’t feel like working live of our OUR tax money and take away from yours. That’s the biggest problem to me

If you have, say, 10k in savings, and become disabled, you can't get benefits until you spend that down to the limit first.

That’s dumb

When I used to work for a cable company, I used to encounter a lot of what we called "Welfare Queens"

man, you cant even qualify for welfare if you have a couple thousand in the bank where i live, even if youre out of work and CANT work.

10 kids with different dads

Same here, Wardog.

There were very few things that were as puzzling and annoying as someone in a crappy apartment that clearly didn't work that had like 4 70 inch TVs

i wonder, if you transferred all your money to someone you could trust under the notion of something like "paying rent" could you get in trouble for that with the government if you applied for government assistance? because now you dont have any money or assets to prevent you from getting welfare.

There the child care scams to

That’s how some people think life is supposed to be like lol. I will never understand it

You could, Wardog, but if you get caught doing it you're in trouble.

@DishonoredRonin @Wardog. I could only imagine that would be something close to tax fraud. Something like that I’d assume

When a family lives in the same house and the state is paying a family member to watch the kids they live with and the parent doesn't even work.

i dont know man, i knew a lot of people on welfare who say they "just fudged it" and got away with it. not just a couple people, but dozens of them. im not the kind of person to want to risk going to jail. some people dont have a problem with that or being dishonest.

@DonkDonkJuanHundo Oh, it's illegal, but I've heard of it being done.

As with all thing @DishonoredRonin

Things

I want more stimulas package!

I want to go back to work. I used to work my tail off, and when I came home I was dog tired, but I knew I'd given it my all.

Well why don’t you just go work up 5 trillion dollars and hand us all a massive stimulus check. Jk lol. I havent really thought a wholw lot about it. I have a really good job by some people’s standard (I’m a chem. Engineer) so i haven’t really worried about it. That’s just me though

Sitting at home with no schedule eats at you.