Some people can't be saved

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  • cp3iverson
    cp3iverson Posts: 8,702
    edited July 2015
    My parents both recently retired after 40 years each working as welfare-field social workers. Both of them are incredibly disappointed and jaded by just how high of a percentage of people play the system. Laziness at its finest. They would get the biggest thrill to help someone who truly needed it or someone who would land a job and cancel their assistance. Sadly that was like once a week in a constant crowded office. Both are immigrants and life-long dems if that matters for anything.

    Have more kids and you get more benefits. School is free even tho they refuse to get a job. It goes on and on. Very sad to see. So many people abuse the benefits that people who need it are sometimes ashamed to come in for help. I have so much respect for people who use the benefits to help climb out of a hole and then proudly get off of them.
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  • rr165892
    rr165892 Posts: 5,697
    cp3iverson said:

    My parents both recently retired after 40 years each working as welfare-field social workers. Both of them are incredibly disappointed and jaded by just how high of a percentage of people play the system. Laziness at its finest. They would get the biggest thrill to help someone who truly needed it or someone who would land a job and cancel their assistance. Sadly that was like once a week in a constant crowded office.

    Have more kids and you get more benefits. School is free even tho they refuse to get a job. It goes on and on. Very sad to see.

    Exactly.
  • Halifax2TheMax
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    What's the percentage? That can't be saved?
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  • PJ_Soul
    PJ_Soul Vancouver, BC Posts: 50,667
    edited July 2015
    cp3iverson said:

    My parents both recently retired after 40 years each working as welfare-field social workers. Both of them are incredibly disappointed and jaded by just how high of a percentage of people play the system. Laziness at its finest. They would get the biggest thrill to help someone who truly needed it or someone who would land a job and cancel their assistance. Sadly that was like once a week in a constant crowded office. Both are immigrants and life-long dems if that matters for anything.

    Have more kids and you get more benefits. School is free even tho they refuse to get a job. It goes on and on. Very sad to see. So many people abuse the benefits that people who need it are sometimes ashamed to come in for help. I have so much respect for people who use the benefits to help climb out of a hole and then proudly get off of them.

    I really don't see what school being free has to do with it.

    Sorry, but one person a WEEK who really needed it? So you're saying like 0.5% of them or so actually need it and aren't taking advantage? I don't believe that at all. I do know that when you work with people in that way you tend to focus on the negatives after a long period of time. I've experienced it myself. What you just said tells me a lot about your parents' perceptions after slogging away for years and years, but it doesn't tell me a thing about what the realities are.
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  • mickeyrat
    mickeyrat Posts: 44,385
    just for some balance to the story in the op.

    http://www.nbcnews.com/business/economy/seattle-eaterys-early-move-15-minimum-wage-rousing-success-n401666
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  • Godfather.
    Godfather. Posts: 12,504
    mickeyrat said:

    just for some balance to the story in the op.

    http://www.nbcnews.com/business/economy/seattle-eaterys-early-move-15-minimum-wage-rousing-success-n401666

    awesome article ! that's what I thought might happen in most places that the min. wages goes up.

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