Anyone that thinks Welfare, Unemployment or any other assistance program is some sort of fukkin' CAKEWALK ought to go and try it first.

Ten years ago I was supporting my new family on the CRAP wages the state pays it's workers and so we applied for WIC to feed my pregnant wife and then later our newborn baby.

Imagine being scowled at and treated like a shoplifter for checking out with some milk and eggs by the dickhead supermarket manager. He looks at what you pick out with a pissed off look on his face, examining each item covered by your coupons and makes comments like "You don't really need THIS!" and "What, store brand not good enough?"

Yes, they really did that. This was also at "pro-life" Ralph's Thriftway that caused that court case for refusing to allow their pharmacists to dispense Plan B. I guess they stop giving a schit about human life at birth. Fvck you, Stormann family.

Anyway.

Another example. The WIC plan required monthly "check ups" with the case worker.

After about 8 months, during mid winter, our daughter came down with a double ear infection. The pediatrician at St Pete's family practice only gave her antibiotics for TWO DAYS. The infection came back, now drug resistant, and almost killed her. The Doc turned out to be a quack with an off-shore Med degree and had his card yanked by the state about a week later.
However, when we came in for our "check up" the case worker accused us of child neglect and threatened to take our daughter away, because of the massive weight loss she suffered, DESPITE the fact that we had letters from St Pete's explaining what happened. She didn't care. Didn't give a fiddler's fart. She treated us like criminals using the state for our own means and letting our daughter starve. We told her to keep her crappy milk & diaper coupons and get fuct, and if she wished to pursue the matter, we would have her azz, and we walked out.

The moral of the story is-- If you thing people on assistance are doing it foe schits and giggles, you have another thing coming. Go try it for six month and see how you like it.

This thread's played out.