Candace Owens: George Floyd is not a Martyr

[Chef Jim]

2 hours ago, All_Pro_Bills said:

I have a lot of experience "helping out" family and friends when they needed some support.  Too much experience.  If you've been in the position to lend a hand and done something similar I expect my story will resonate with you.  I'll wager the proponents of these social handout programs have no such experience.  This experience has formed the basis for my objections to most of these life-long public assistance programs. 

 

I've welcomed several friends and family into our home when they needed some help.  I've accommodated them by providing them with use of some empty bedrooms and other living space, even their own private bathroom.  And full use of the house and common living spaces.  And I've never asked or expected anything in return.  My only request was that they use the time and the opportunity of not having to pay rent or a lot of other living expenses to get their life in order and come out of this back on their feet with some cash in their pockets.  That's kind of how I view public assistance should work too.

 

But over time it was the same story.  They get comfortable and complacent.  They turn my offer of assistance into a "stay-cation" for themselves.  I go to work and come home and they are more or less hanging around enjoying their freedom.  As time goes by my disposition changes as they are goofing off at my expense.   This happens every time.  At that point I find I need to confront them and ask what the plan is here?  I tell them my offer was to help them get on their feet not to provide a carefree lifestyle.  They generally get mad about this and when they do leave they are pissed at me.  

 

This is what all these social programs do to people.  They kill their will and desire to take care of themselves.  They become complacent and dare I say lazy along with developing an attitude of entitlement and expectations of more. 

 

In my view there is a big difference in "helping" and "doing it for them".  

 

I could go on.  My wife was a office manager of the temporary placement firm.  Many of the people coming in looking for work were people that gamed the social assistance system for a living.  That was their occupation.  Their only purpose in looking for work was to use the job as a means to qualify for more assistance when it become necessary.  Once the additional assistance was secured from the state or federal program they either quit or created some situation in order to get fired.  I'm not saying there aren't people that need this kind of help.  But there is a lot of abuse of the system out there.  

 

My wife worked with a woman a few years ago in the Bay Area who had a friend or relative (I've forgotten which) who told my wife's co-worker she was a fool for working.  

 

Your story, and what you experienced, is exactly what seems to happen with people who have been on public assistance their entire lives and the lives of the generation(s) before them.  I've always said that we should require some sort of public work to obtain public assistance.  There are places in SF (like all cities) that are absolute trash heaps.  "Here's a broom, shovel and trash bags. I'll be at the end of the lot with your unemployment/welfare check."  Our cities would be much nicer places to live.  

51 minutes ago, BillStime said:

 

 

 

Dispute what she says.  

[BillStime]

All they do is lie - it’s a right wing virtue.

 

 

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