my family was in a terrible accident a few years back. my father couldnt work and my mom was just starting her job and didnt make good pay. my dad went to the welfare office to try and get some money. My family was not allowed to get food stamps because we had two vehicles. one vehicle was a 15 year old minivan which my dad used to get to work (bluebook value 300 dollars) and my mom had a 5 year old minivan in which she used to take kids to school and go to work herself.(bluebook value 1500) so as my dad is standing in line trying to see if they could give him foodstamps. Loud bumping music was heard outside and a black person pulled up in a decked out new escalade with nice rims and stereo. The guy actually came out of his car walked to the front of the line and got some food stamps and left. my dad was furious. did he have a reason to be mad?
2007-04-10 07:00:08 · 22 answers · asked by its not gay if... 2 in Politics & Government ➔ Government
Yes, it is unfair. I sure wish people could see both sides of this equation. I think there is a welfare culture in the Ghetto that causes poverty to persist, and they end up working more for benefits than making their life better. It's too easy to blame someone else and demand welfare in the place of effort.
2007-04-10 07:02:04 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 8⤊ 3⤋
When I was a kid My dad would tell me about the welfare joke.
When the auto industry would announce major layoffs, people would respond by buying the best car they could afford and other personal needs, eliminating personnel wealth. They would stack the deck to allow them to take advantage of welfare restrictions. Welfare is the last resort, so it would seem to punish those who have a rainy day fund. Life And Welfare have not changed That New Decked out Escalade is a --CAR-- to welfare people, but two old Vans is wealth. THEY EXPECT AND EXCEPT A PERSON TO NEED -A- CAR TO FIND WORK. Just Don't judge the person who got the stamps, for what he had.
2007-04-13 15:39:19 · answer #2 · answered by tom 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Of course your father had reason to be angry, but fraud knows no racial boundaries.
The reality is that no matter where you live, welfare doesn't work for anyone. It's a pittance, and it's a pittance that keeps families trapped in the system.
No, I'm NOT saying that welfare should be dropped. I'm saying that no matter where you are, major welfare reforms are necessary to help to break the cycle. Those reforms include making it easier to get disability support. That's almost impossible to get, no matter where you live, and far too many people on welfare are actually disabled and in need of a different type of help altogether.
Take care of that first, then differentiate between those who are on assistance for a specific reason, for example, while they retrain or while they find another job, and those who are there because it's the family's way of life. These are two different problems and they require two different solutions.
2007-04-10 07:12:49 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 5⤊ 0⤋
I wonder if you'd have felt the same way if the person who got out of the Escalade was white. Dishonest people come in all colors. A white guy with an Escalade might have paid for it by embezzling from his company. I'll bet Ken Lay and his pals all drove nice cars, but they were worse cheats than this fellow your dad saw getting food stamps.
Quite honestly, this story sounds made up, anyway.
2007-04-10 07:16:01 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
I think your dad had every right to be mad...at the system. I'm not sure that every black person on welfare acts like that. The requirements to be a welfare recipient need to be rewritten. The guidelines need to be changed. There needs to be some type of proof of income, or lack there of. Able bodied people need to be trained for employment to get off the welfare system and I don't just mean black people. There are just as many people of other races that are getting over on the system. While the welfare system is being reformed, they need to reconstruct the guidelines for applying for disability too. I've seen medically disabled people get turned down for disability and crackheads get approved. The whole system sucks.
2007-04-10 07:18:26 · answer #5 · answered by debz81 3 · 3⤊ 0⤋
back in dec. my family was so bad off that we had to go to a local food pantry for help. we are white, both of us work but i make commission and that time of year no one has the extra money to pay me, and my husband is a roofer so he was laid off and receiving unemployment of $263 a week.(how is that supposed to support a family?) i went to see if we could get food stamps and we were turned down because my, and i quote, "pay fluctuates too much and there is no way to accurately average my wages." but a girl who i know(do not like, but unfortunately still know, and is white) who still lives with her parents (who are very well-off i might add) walks in and gets food stamps and cash assistance and leaves in her brand new gmc jimmy. while my family had to eat rice and grits for a month, and take the city bus and had nothing left for Christmas. yeah the system works great for the working poor. LOL! so no, i would not say that the system favors black people just that it favors drug dealers and the non-working lazy people.
2007-04-10 07:20:58 · answer #6 · answered by missi 3 · 2⤊ 2⤋
Yes he did. I am a single mom with a job that pays 13 dollars an hour and have no medical care yet (waiting for 90 days)
Had major kidney failure in my left kidney and went to the hospital, they refused if i couldnt pay them, An illegal immigrant from mexico broke his arm in a bar fight, and got right in and filled out a medi cal form, was taken in and didnt pay a dime.
Medi cal turned me down cause I have a job.
Some system, the taxes from my small paycheck paid for him.
2007-04-10 07:05:24 · answer #7 · answered by gsxr650 3 · 9⤊ 1⤋
No it doesn't work and hasn't work since it became a way of life for decades. And your father has an absolute right to be angry, especially with the new campaign I've heard on the radio to get people to sign up.
2007-04-10 07:06:50 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 5⤊ 1⤋
Yes, No one has the right to cut in line like that.
2007-04-10 07:07:42 · answer #9 · answered by The Central Scruitinizer 2 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Your question asks, "is welfare working for the black people?" meaning the group as a whole, yet, you describe one experience with one person. For one, you don't know that the man was picking up food stamps for himself, he could have been picking them up for a grandmother, friend, anyone. I'm sorry about your family's situation, but, I, nor has anyone in my family ever been on welfare.
*You weren't "trolling," were you?
2007-04-10 07:05:16 · answer #10 · answered by C. J. 5 · 4⤊ 3⤋