"If we decide to raise taxes and just give them the money then nothing will be accomplished. They will just be complacent to sit on their butts and wait for the check to come in each month."

I've asked every person in a women's shelter what they would need to not be in the shelter... They need housing, they need a job, they need help in transportation to that job until the first paycheck comes in, and some of them need health care or education so that they can get a job at all.

If people are sitting on their butts waiting for the check... that's not complacency, that's *despair* because the check will not allow them to pay for the things they require to get off their butts.

I left high school before graduating, because I was sick, but mostly because welfare refused to pay the transportation allowance so that I could get to school every day. They told me that a sick person could walk up and down a steep hill every day and if I wanted to take the bus outside my door to school I'd have to pay for it myself. Then they told me that if I didn't go to school I'd get cut off and wouldn't have any money for rent or food.

As I had $20 a month for food after rent, I just dropped out. You want to call that complacency?


Here's complacency. I need $35,000 in order to go to college for one year, because of health problems caused by growing up on welfare. The government loans would amount to $14,000. I'm too sick to work part-time and go to school part-time much less full-time. Most of the kids in college live with their parents and work full-time during the summer, AND work part-time during school, AND receive cash and food support from their parents.

So where am I going to find an extra $21,000 a year in order to go to school and take health treatments so that I can have a future?

Or, I need $20,000 now to take those treatments and wait for a year to be healthy enough to work.


You want to help someone who's trying? Find me $20,000.