I tend to reject the constant hand-outs, and the "it's not your fault" mentality
if you want something... work for it!
if you don't want to work hard... live like shit... I don't care!
I agree with that mentality to a point, I know a decent chunk of people whom I worked with or went to school with where there are valid reasons why they can't work or can't hold legit full time jobs due to some sort of physical handicap. I do believe there should be programs out there that assist them to lead a somewhat normal life. Heck, I'd imagine if you don't already there's probably something for Spencer to give a credit or some sort of assistance.
(don't get me wrong... there's also a part of me that wonders why we have medicine to solve peanut allergy and the others lead a normal life, whats wrong with a little natural selection?)
If someone is fully capable of working some sort of job, I fully agree that assistance should be limited and a job should be demanded of them.
There's this common mentality that everyone out there is scamming the system. I know first hand there are..
Shit, my youngest cousin is... 20 now? hasn't had a job ever, got knocked up and is having a baby. Lives at home with her parents. No car, no job, plans on living with mom and dad soaking up assistance. Pisses me the fk off. HOWEVER, there's tons of people who it's extremely valid and warranted.
It's easy to lump everyone into one bucket and call them as you see them. It's like everyone who says that drug tests should be given for people who get EBT stamps. It's funny because I come from an area north of the twin cities where there's not really any black/african american population. My family is largely racist it's pretty sad what I hear them say at family gatherings... They assume if the person is black and on welfare that they must do drugs.
I get it, I had that stereotype as well..
This past winter, There was a report that came out (lemme find it..)
"In February, a report on Tennessee's welfare applicants revealed that merely 37 out of 16,017 applicants tested positive for illegal drug use. That rate comes out to 0.23% of total applicants."
I'm all in for drug screening, I don't want my money going to someone who doesn't need it however.. I'm guessing to have this program in place costs more than the benefits of it...
Long story short. I work hard for my money and don't want to see what I pay in be abused. I'd love my taxes to be trimmed a bit so I'm not paying in as much. The other side of the coin for free tuition, I'd like to see free tuition be granted for a blue collar trade. Pipe fitter, electrician, etc.. Something in the trade sector.. Somewhere in the last 20 years this vision of "you need a degree to be successful" took off and it's a complete shit show now.. You have college kids going to school beause they
need it, racking up all this debt and they get out of school to find nothing available in what they want. Get them into a trade where theres not as many people going into it as are coming out! that's what we need!
