Welfare Junkies

*Disclaimer: This post may be rude and offensive to some. If you are easily offended, please do not read this post.

 

Let’s talk about food stamps, shall we? After having the incident with the angry customer, I started to notice some things:

• There is a distinct “look” to the people on Government Assistance- yes, you can’t lie, there are distinct looks to people in my line who are on food stamps, and they look “trashy”.  Most people associate them having the looks of stringy hair, rotten teeth (or lack there of), smelling bad, normally wearing sweatpants OR they look decent but are covered in tattoos or look high all the time. It’s sad that in my years of being a cashier, I can pick them out of a crowd like a criminal line up.
• There is a distinct “look” to their food orders-yes, this is also true. I’m sorry, but when I see 35 of those $1 TV dinners, something snaps in my brain, and I KNOW that they’re not just “cheap”

 

Please don’t get me wrong, I think Government Assistance is great…for people who NEED it. There is a difference in people who NEED it and people who abuse the system to get a free ride. My ex-husband was like this. Notice how I said EX, lol. He was a lazy SOB who didn’t want to work, so he worked the minimum number of hours so he got assistance, and then bought steak and lobster for food every month. It made me sick. Don’t ask me why I married the dude because it was a complete lack of judgement on my part. In my state, you have to work a minimum of twenty hours a week to be considered for GA. So in order for the trash-bags to make sure they have their food stamps, they’ll just go to the local Mickey D’s and get a job, knowing they can do better, so they can get their weekly requirement.

Y’all make me sick! It’s called a freaking JOB. If you can’t afford what you have, it’s called a “second job”. It’s when you work TWO jobs. Oh, the audacity. Get off your lazy asses and do something.

The reason I don’t completely bash the whole GA program is simply due to the fact that as a child, I used GA health insurance. My parents didn’t have much, but knew I needed health coverage. They never asked for food stamps or cash assistance. They didn’t even ask for health insurance for THEMSELVES. We made do with what we call a “budget”. It’s when you have a JOB…and you make MONEY… and you only buy the things you can AFFORD and stretch the money in every way possible.

It’s sad that I’ve actually heard the excuse of “I can’t do any better for myself”. WTF? It’s called “beating the odds”. It’s when you take a bad situation and you make yourself better because of it. I’ve done it. Granted, I work as a cashier, but that’s not my only job. I also have a full-time salary, and I also have a home-based business. I can afford things like… hmmm… the internet. I wear sweatpants to sleep in, not formal attire. 

In this economy, a lot of people are relying on GA to get by. That’s great. Whatever. Do what you need to do. But if you go shopping with your mom and grandma, and all THREE of you use food stamps, you might be a government assistance whore. (Notice how using “redneck” would’ve completely changed the persona of this post.) This is when the government needs to step in and audit exactly what is going on. The IRS does it all the time, why can’t they?

Point being, get a life, Welfare Junkies, or better yet, get a job and learn to fend for yourself.