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The Myth of the Welfare Queen

The Myth of the Welfare Queen

Damn this story. Brought back bad memories.

Used to be on welfare. Can remember just how ashamed and frustrated I was in the welfare office applying for Social Assistance. That office just radiated hostility to applicants. Like, "Can't you helpless supplicants just find work on your own?"

Of course damn well not! If we could, we wouldn't be here!

Told the clerks in those places numerous times the reason Social Assistance was so hard to get onto was because White people hated poor minorities getting help from the government, but was told, "No! It's because we want to make sure there's no fraud."

Fraud? That's a criminal charge! Digging into my bank account balance before I'm ever accused of a crime is both humiliating and demeaning. Why am I being treated like a crook before I've even done anything?

Stormed out of those offices on a few occasions. Probably would've been out of poverty years ago were the welfare system set up to actually help people rather than to just maintain the status quo.

As the system is now, it's just built to perpetuate poverty. The welfare system is barely of any benefit to its recipients, and of tremendous value to the poverty industry. People make billions of poverty. It's sickening.

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