Vanilla warns everyone for the 50th time not to turn Spill Your Guts into a chat thread. Less than a page later, a few mods and some others are doing exactly what they were asked not to do.
Good discussion going on in that mathematical thread. Closed by BD.
Sometimes things make zero sense.
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They help you find a new apartment which they pay for, they pay your utilize, you also qualify for food stamps. Then they shove you into this program called WEP. WEP is work that you have to do in order to keep your benefits. They send you to some random job to do work for some company that has no intentions of having you when they can get you to work for 1 dollar a day. You HAVE to do this job or else you will lose all of your benefits. When you get your foodstamps, they give you 30 bucks in cash along with your food stamps and you get stuck in a cycle where you have to show up for this stupid WEP work and doing this slave labor is counter productive to your actual job search.
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Ok welfare isn't legalized slavery. That's a retarded statement. It's there to help people out... So they are working and getting free housing, utilities, and food. Where would they be without welfare?? Surely not living in a paid-for apartment and getting free food. Crash is exactly right. Lol, sounds like a damn job to me. If they want to go to school or do something else with their lives, then they are gonna have to work extremely hard and find a way to make it happen. But a government program that helps millions of people by giving them homes, food, and a job is somehow a bad thing?? and slavery?
One of my issues with welfare is just that it provides hardly any incentive for a lot of people to even get off of it. I said this in another thread but I'll repeat a little bit. Basically, you work hard at your low-end job to get a raise, then you lose government benefits so it cancels out. So I think a lot of people just grow content with where they are at in their social status since working hard for a raise doesn't gain them much of anything.