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Rukia ([info]_rukia) wrote in [info]otf_wank,
@ 2007-10-30 16:45:00


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Current mood:*Snarl*
Entry tags:bad service, urge to kill rising, welfare, why otf_wank is depressing

Bad Service wanks about welfare and made-up statistics
[info]ever_abstract makes a post to [info]bad_service about a trip to the grocery store involving an incredibly obnoxious cashier-manager duo who give her a hard time about WIC.

This prompts [info]starliteunicorn to tell the community that she thinks welfare is absolutely ridiculous. She goes on to inform us all:

I'm all for getting rid of it entirely. People used to help each OTHER out, instead of begging the government. And it bothers me. A lot. I don't get paid to just exsist-I have to work. I know some people CAN'T get jobs... but it seems extrodinarily unfair. Too many people leech off the welfare system without even ATTEMPTING to find work or get themselves to a better position. The stereotype of the drug addict mother to 6 different kids all with different daddies is true for about 65% of people coming through the various types of welfare (taken from a friend who does, indeed, work in a WIC office).

And it just snowballs from there.



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[info]dragonfangirl
2007-10-31 06:42 am UTC (link)
Women, Infants, and Children. TBMK It's a targeted food-stamp system aimed at giving kids proper nutrition in the critical development period -- for mothers while they are pregnant and breastfeeding, and for young children under the age of five. All in all, it's probably one of the best welfare programs ever to hit the board. [/editorializing]

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[info]electricwitch
2007-10-31 01:48 pm UTC (link)
Thanks. Or not. Because this was actually quite funny until I found out what it actually is. :/

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[info]dragonfangirl
2007-10-31 05:53 pm UTC (link)
This is why I almost never follow the links on wank posts. Bringing reality into it just ruins things.

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[info]electricwitch
2007-10-31 07:38 pm UTC (link)
Oh, I don“t usually mind. But now I have European welfare guilt.

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[info]dragonfangirl
2007-10-31 08:01 pm UTC (link)
*puzzles* How do you have European guilt over an American program?

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[info]electricwitch
2007-10-31 11:53 pm UTC (link)
IDK I just feel bad I get lots of free money for being unemployable now.

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