Just yesterday, I completed an application for snap benefits. That’s all I wanted and needed assistance with. Because I’m a part-time worker, my finances at times get strapped because I’m paying off a loan from a bank and it makes my working budgets feel a little compressed. I need some breathing room here.
I hope I get them but I never intend to be on it forever, I just need some financial security and resource assurance. I’ve always tried being a person who looked to things like this and only go to them when I needed them, not because I wanted them and mooch off from them.
The programs are there for a reason. Don’t listen to idiots with an IQ lower than the number of M&Ms that come in a Halloween serving.
I think guilt tripping is part of it in the US. Here (Europe) we just apply for the stuff that were eligible for.
In the UK, too. The whole process seems designed to be as intrusive, dehumanising, and shaming as possible.
As The Clash say in “Know Your Rights”:
You have the right to food money
Provided of course
You don’t mind a little
Investigation
Humiliation
And if you cross your fingers
RehabilitationOooo thank you, “I, Daniel Blake” is next up on my list of movies to watch!
Can confirm.
Bingo. They save money when people don’t apply for benefits they deserve or have “earned” in the US.
Rich people have their hands out 24/7.
Look at all the government money Musk took.
Ronald Reagan got rich by making sure he was always the poorest guy in the room. He sucked up to his bosses at General Electric [then one of the biggest companies in the USA] and got to invest in sweetheart deals.
George W. Bush was given a US major league baseball team.
Take every penny your qualify for.
I will say, as a tax payer, if you are eligible for them, FUCKING TAKE THEM! Take every ¢ you can make reasonable use of!
I pay into the pool to provide a safety net to everyone. I’ve bounced off it myself, when I was younger. I want to know that it is doing its job for those that need it.
Proviso, I’m based in the UK. I’m quite sure a lot of tax payers, world wide, feel the same and would also give you “permission”.
No. I pay taxes while using none of those programs and those programs are there to give people a hand up who are struggling. You deserve a roof over your head, a warm & safe place to sleep, clean water to drink and bathe, and decent food to eat. You are human and trying to meet your basic needs. People who have more can support those who have less. Simple.
Please, do not feel guilty.
There are endless wealthy people and big businesses that take advantage of every tax break and loophole imaginable.
Also, its one of the places your tax dollars go. You paid for these services
That’s just the capitalist brainwashing we’re all subjected to. Do you think that the pedo parasite class feels bad when they get billions in taxpayer funded subsidies kickbacks and tax breaks to build up their corporate empires while they privatize all the profits, get rid of labor laws, regulations and social safety nets so they can leech even more taxpayer money at our expense?
You exist, therefore you’re worthy.
They’ve literally structured our economy around paying you enough to qualify for it. Not your fault our leaders are morons.
Multi million dollar Businesses game the system to pay you so little they don’t have to pay benefits and you qualidt for SNAP. Its disgusting, and they blame people for fraud when we’re being starved to death. Fuck capitalism.
Basically I’m trying to access some social services now, and the administrators don’t give a fuck about the community they are paid to tend to. Real sad
That’s what your tax dollars are for.
Take your entitlements - you’re entitled to them.
Fuck no
Every paycheck for twenty plus years, I calmly and without complaint saw taxes and fica taken out of each check because that’s how you have a social safety net.
I sure as fuck didn’t pay in because I could afford it, I paid in because it’s mandatory.
So you, me, whoever, is 100% justified in using the social safety net we all paid and pay into because that’s what it’s for in the first place.
Never, ever feel guilty about it brougham.
When I got out of the military I didn’t filed for disability when I got out, because I didn’t want to be a “leach on the system.” I was stupidly very libertarian back then. I completely regret it now. I’m 45 years old with the hearing and back of a 65 year old. Plus the $10k I’ve had to spend because of how bad they fucked my teeth.
The systems are there to support you. But jackasses like Reagan made us all not want to be “welfare queens” just so he could line his and his buddies pockets while they go off and be pedophiles. So get what support you need. There is no need to feel guilty for something you qualify for.
I was stupidly very libertarian back then.
Not even Ayn Rand stuck to that shit once she was eligible for Medicare and Social Security
You should have seen how pissed off my Trump loving BIL got when I told him the unemployment he was collecting was a social program.
Like… how can people not realize this? Crazy.
If you were in the military you already were, if we want to put our ultra libertarian hat on.
So get what support you need. There is no need to feel guilty for something you qualify for.
Just worth saying again 😌
Fuck no. The only thing needed to cure this shame is glancing at last year’s tax return.
No lmao. I’m fighting them right now for that money. I paid into the system, the system bankrupt me, now the system pays out. Social insurance.
No fucking way, give me what’s mine by right of being a citizen and paying taxes. Fuck guilt.
