--"The image of people sitting on their porches lazily toking up on
the government dime is mythological." --
I have seen exactly that often, as a Minneapolis property owner.
People about 19, perfectly healthy, good looking, and smart,
getting up around noon, slogging their way accross the street to corner
grocer (with help wanted sign on door) to get their milk, bread and beer.
That is the female, then the male, and usually more than one over
time are there living off the welfare money, they smoke a little as
afternoon and evening wears on. Then the guys would get on the $200 a month
General Assistance and go for 6 months or a year or two, and then they would
begin to look at the SSI thing, and I saw some perfectly healthy able guys
in their early to mid twenties get on SSI. All this while Asians and
Latinos wisp around in small new cars, going to their jobs etc.
-And I only had one 4plex to which this lifestyle was applicable-.
As econ student at UND in 60s, I favored the welfare thing,
thinking it was all legit and supporting the economy, but experience changed
my mind, as I saw the abuse, the wasted lives and the deliberate conniving.
And I have heard similar discussion from police officers.
James Jacobsen // Whittier
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