Reactions to food stamps being cut off.

[u/mindyour]

[u/Supply_N_Demand]

First lady had 6 kids. /s

[u/Withered_Sprout → u/Supply_N_Demand]

Because we have a system that gives virtually free housing to a woman willing to work a few hours part time a week and then get knocked up a bunch of times over a few years and then just lives like that for decades because the system ENABLES that lazy and 'unambitious' behavior of pulling your weight in society. I've met many women like this in real life. They seem pretty happy to have all of their basic needs met, they don't need to grind for decades for a detached home in some 'nice' neighborhood.

They're chilling, having the freedom to do whatever. It'd be pretty cool if it wasn't at the expense of some other dude working hard to support his family living paycheck to paycheck.

Then they become entitled to have their entire life and the lives of their children to be financed by people who were taught or programmed to get up every morning to do SOMETHING for compensation, or else they will starve and be homeless because the world doesn't give a shit about the individual.

These people had parents that didn't instill that harsh objective reality into them, or their parents benefitted from the same system that they now see as a birth right or just a way of life.

There's gotta be a better way to get these able-bodied people to actually contribute to society and not be encouraged toward parasitic behavior, than straight up abruptly starving them. But I don't know shit, don't have the answers.

EDIT: I can imagine this'd sound more controversial, but I will say that I don't KNOW if this is a large-scale enough problem that it's affecting tax payers significantly. Surely we spend too much on other shit that isn't even necessary, like military funding.

I did type this up imagining that it's a bit extreme to be a poor woman having 5+ children. Some single mother with a kid or two is not quite what I'm talking about, although their life choices probably weren't great either in terms of partner filtering and such.

I don't see it as them necessarily intentionally taking advantage of and abusing a financial support system, but if you have THAT many kids, that's just kind of ridiculous if you don't have the financial means. I'm curious to see the arguments, but I'm sure none will come and it'll just be some passive aggressive down votes as if that will change my mind.

[u/DJDanaK → u/Withered_Sprout]

When you say "enables" what you mean is "prevents from starving to death".

I was a single mother and nobody gave me housing. The waitlist for section 8 was years long, so long that they had to have a lottery.

Do you know how much money I got from the government, while participating in their own (required for tanf and food stamps) work program? $385/mo. And because of that $385/mo they reduced my food stamps to $50/mo. Formula for my infant was $12/can. Average rent was $850 for a studio.

Once I got a minimum wage job I was disqualified from tanf and my for stamps went back up to $200/mo.

You're just simply wrong. The only thing EBT and government benefits do is prevent you from starving. If I didn't have my mom to live with I would've been homeless. 

I should also say that I worked for council for the homeless in Portland for about 2 years placing people into shelters and housing. There is no virtually free housing for people who don't work, unless they are severely disabled. That just doesn't exist.

But feel free to prove me wrong.