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Message Subject This is $7.50 an hour life

Poster Handle Happy in Nature

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Maybe there aren't many jobs in her area. Maybe she cannot afford transit to another part of town.

Do you think Jesus would mock her?

Quoting: Happy in Nature

Honestly, I don't think he was mocking her, just stating a fact. Like I said earlier, raising her wages to $15 will do nothing for her, they will just cut her welfare.

Do you know how many working poor there are? Those moms and dads don't have as nice a place as her and probably less food and NO medical, and they don't get to spend all their time with their kids as she clearly does since she's only working a few hours. What would Jesus think about the working poor being snubbed on a daily basis?

Quoting: Keilani

My mom worked three minimum wage jobs in FL and couldn't qualify for assistance while my black high school gym teacher drove a Lincoln and supplemented her income with food stamps.

I grew up in Vermont, home of the Welfare Queen. I am 100% against this lifestyle.

I also know many people who needed a couple years of assistance to get on their feet. I would rather pay out welfare benefits to keep kids fed and sheltered rather than making them homeless.

Many kids go to public schools just to get breakfast and lunch. The Democrats created ghettos with their pubic housing. The schools are a reflection of the neighborhood. The businesses are a reflection of the neighborhood. It is very hard to get out of this situation. Not impossible, but not as simple as getting a better job.

A handful of people control most of the resources in the world, and yet we blame the poor for being poor.

If a wealthy person gets pregnant and has a baby, that's ok. But if a poor person has sex and gets pregnant, she should work 80 hours a week and never see her baby because she deserves it for getting pregnant and not being able to support a kid, right?

She is at least trying to get a job. She isn't bragging about popping out another kid for more WIC benefits.

Matthew 15:32

And Jesus called His disciples to Him, and said, “I feel compassion for the people, because they have remained with Me now three days and have nothing to eat; and I do not want to send them away hungry, for they might faint on the way.”

Quoting: Happy in Nature

You're poor mom having to work three jobs and then no help, living in FL I can totally relate to that. Which is why it completely escapes me why you feel sorry for her.

She is NOT like your mom. She is only working part time and seems to have no desire to get another job or schooling. Then government rewards her with a big apartment, Medicaid, food stamps and lots of time to spend with your kids, which your mom did NOT, so no comparison.

How on God's green earth do you find that fair that your mom had to work her a// off and not have time to spend with you guys, but this chic can work just a couple hours a month and get sh/t handed to her and still complains???

Quoting: Keilani

Because I think it is in the best interest of society not to toss 20 million people on the street, regardless of my personal views on the subject. I know many people who needed a couple years of help to get on their feet. I know a couple people who committed suicide because they figured their kids would be better off receiving SSI/insurance payouts than being homeless. I know children who would have been much better off living in a cheap apartment than on the street.

We need a mass restructuring of our economic system and society that will take a generation or two with compassionate leadership. I think that one of the failures of the left was not to engage with Trump about how to reform inner cities. I do believe that financial assistance should require some form of community service in a manner that respects the poor and the community at large. Trump's biggest asset is his ability to motivate people. He needs to take MAGA energy into the inner cities. We have seen things only get worse through the Democrats who depend on keeping the poor poor so they can dangle aid.

I don't like the idea of a large welfare state. I don't like that my mom had to work her ass off because my dad gambled away our life savings and couldn't make the measly $100 a month child support payments. I wish that she had been given a little aid and worked fewer hours so that I had time with her instead of having to get a full time job days after my 16th birthday to help make ends meet. I occasionally stole food from my fast food restaurant job to give to my sisters because my mom's income was not enough to support three teenagers, shitty car and a cheap rental in a drug neighborhood. I can empathize with the misery and hopelessness of being poor. It was so stressful. I have seen or heard about a number of people who killed themselves because of financial difficulties. That should never happen. It's about the greater good. I am not advocating a welfare lifestyle. I do believe that we should be able to support ourselves on a minimum wage job instead of working like cogs to feed the machine.

There are no simple solutions, but chastising the poor because some of us were able to escape the poverty cycle is not the answer.

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