X-Post: Confession - My mom was a welfare queen

[Anser]

Actually, I knew a lot of welfare queens growing up. And not only did they "play the system" but they had a diabolical liberal agenda!

They would flaunt the wealth they had mugged from the american taxpayer.

Whether it was pooling together cash to afford gas money for a joint trip to the supermarket (Sharing resources! Carpooling! Clearly they were commie environmentalists!)

Or, babysitting for each other while others were out job searching, or writing a term paper (In those especially insane days before Clinton era Welfare reform, when poor people were actually allowed to go to college, can you imagine?)

We, of course, had a big screen television. (My mom had this friend with a pickup truck, and on large item garbage day they'd go out there and commit more looney left environmentalism. Reuse recycle...pfft!)

She even swindled the government out of money for a computer while she went to school. (The computer I grew up tinkering with, which had the effect of helping me develop the technical skills I've used to claw my own way out of poverty. Which led to, you guessed it, more liberal propaganda being spewed, at rallies and on blogs, by me!)


/Tongue in cheek off
/Sarcasm off

It's been 5 years since she passed. RIP mom, life dealt you the rawest and roughest of hands, yet you still somehow took care of everyone around you.

[marybourg]

1. Very nice; thank you. nt.

[DBoon]

2. your mom had character and attitude

in a good way

[ejpoeta]

3. thank you for sharing your story. too many people seem to not know what it's like

to be poor. or else they pretend they don't. it's sad really. because it takes a lot of work to survive as a poor person. it's like treading water with someone holding your head under.

[GreenPartyVoter]

4. "it's like treading water with someone holding your head under." Yes, it's just like that. And

sometimes they let you up for a breath and you think you've finally got a chance, only to get pushed under again. :(

[socialshockwave]

5. The hatred

that exists today towards the poor is disgusting.

People aren't "entitled" by barely being able to survive. People look hard for work, but can't find any. Should they be punished?

I hate Republicrats for pushing this hate. :(

Well said, OP.