Welfare Is Not a Pedestal

Rent is crazy fucking cheap if you live in the wilderness. I share a place with 6 people and pay $550 a month for my end. And I consider it a pretty good deal.

Yeah, I share a two story apartment with one other girl and my rent is that low. She got the place a few years ago and her landlord never raised the rent.

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Originally Posted by squall_vb

Actually, it would appear that Shine is doing the responsible thing and raising his own kids. It's all the other kids that I didn't sire, and yet I find myself raising via taxes, that are the issue.

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There's a difference between feeding and raising. I can mail a check to feed and shelter a kid, but a good role model is a much harder thing, which is Shine's angle.

You'll have a tough time convincing me children don't deserve to be fed, clothed, and housed. I'm ok paying for that, and so are most people, and welfare is actually one of the more effective ways to get that done.

Protip: Start a cash only business so you never have to pay income tax again. Then laugh at welfare people in supermarket.

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Originally Posted by MarkRyan

We have free college? Sign me up!

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I know Cal States are technically free, meaning you don't pay tuition but campus "fees" to use facilities such as the library, whether or not you actually do. At CSULB out of state students had to pay tuition meaning an additional $1000 per semester.

I went to college for "free" (full paid tuition) and I'm still $20K in the hole afterward.

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Originally Posted by Frogacuda

and welfare is actually one of the more effective ways to get that done.

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Ehhhhhhhh...yes and no.

While I agree there aren't many (any?) other institutions that take care of kids better per se, I don't see welfare as being effective. Only anecdotes, but I've heard enough stories of parents using their welfare to buy themselves better clothes, etc. while the kids still live "poor." They don't go hungry, mind you, but they don't benefit from what is essentially their compensation, because the parent circumvents it for their own luxuries.

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Originally Posted by Rated E

My rent is 262, and I pay for everything. Cell phone+car insurance+internet+electric is around 170. Eh, every month I kind of wonder how it works out too. Maybe I make closer to 700.

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You feel rich because you're still living in fiscal Candyland.

Cell phone+car insurance+internet+electric alone for most people is a couple hundred at least.

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Originally Posted by Fe 26

God bless you sir. People like you are who pay for MS to exist. MS takes in more handouts from the government than it pays out in taxes. It is people like you that make things like segregated proms possible.

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Nope. People like me don't, because we don't live in ass-backward states.

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Originally Posted by Bojack

You feel rich because you're still living in fiscal Candyland.

Cell phone+car insurance+internet+electric alone for most people is a couple hundred at least.

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I don't feel rich. I'm just glad I can at least make ends meet while going to school.