ideal welfare sytem

vid wrote:

There's also problems with nut allergy as regards fruit cake.

Flaja, just one more question - are you a Republican?, as no matter how much I've read and re-read your posts, your allegiance isn't obvious and I can't seem to make up my mind. I know it's a bit of a personal question, but I'm dying to know.

I haven't been a Republican since 10 GOP senators voted to acquit Clinton in 1998.

Flaja - have you ever looked at the requirements to become a welfare recipient in this country? Have you ever looked at the paperwork you need to fill out just to get food stamps?

ehBeth wrote:

we sure can't let you into the libertarians' clubhouse

That's the kindest thing any of you fruitcakes here have ever said to me.

So don't preach to me about how hard it is to live on welfare.

Green Witch wrote:

Flaja - have you ever looked at the requirements to become a welfare recipient in this country? Have you ever looked at the paperwork you need to fill out just to get food stamps?

I gather that it is usually a lot easier to do the paperwork for welfare than it is to get a job. My neighbor right now is a case in point. She has 3 children by 3 different men. She was only married to one of them and she lived with the 2nd for about 10 years while he was married to a woman in another state. She got pregnant by the 3rd man while she was still shacked-up with #2. She gets welfare for every single one of her children and hasn't worked but about 3 months since I met her in the summer of 2005. And the real kicker is that she is on some government program that lets her go to the best hospitals in town when she or her children need medical attention, while my disabled mother, who worked full-time (and then some) from the time she was 16 to the time she was 50, has to go to the county welfare hospital because all she qualifies for is Medicare.

So don't preach to me about how hard it is to live on welfare.

Hey, I want an umlaut!

vid wrote:

Hey, I want an umlaut!

I'll give you a 'ß' for free.

excuse me, but that belongs to me and hamburger!

(We don't need no steenkeeng alt key . . . )

flaja wrote:

So don't preach to me about how hard it is to live on welfare.

Youir above example clöearly shows that you've gone through all that.


The USA are really a paradise for men:make children, pay nothing but the mother gets welfare.

I'm glad you're starting to revolutionise that system!

A welfare system that works would supply good daycare (like in France), job training, affordable (safe) housing and a mentoring system that made sure this woman could learn to support herself and her family.

In most states welfare is not an endless program, there are time limits.

My father never paid child support and now owes my mother something like $22,000 (not adjusted for inflation and not including any interest). My mother always worked 40-60 hours a week. The closest we ever came to welfare was reduced-price school lunches for me for the first 2 years after the divorce. .

You can have no idea how galling it was to go to the grocery store during the Carter Administration and be able to barely afford hamburger while someone else used food stamps to buy steak while they wear as much jewelry as a Gabor sister and then ride home in a taxicab.