I applied for food stamps years ago, I think I got $300 over a couple months that could only be used on food, and it can't be pre-cooked or it doesn't qualify. I was told I wouldn't be allowed to apply again for like a decade? This was in one of the Dem stronghold states, I imagine it's worse elsewhere.
The cruelty is literally the point. The Calvinist psychopaths who have been in charge of the system since the 80s deliberately make it as humiliating and useless as possible to encourage the "worthy" poor to find a job at the job factory. They don't give a shit what happens to the "unworthy" poor who can't work, but they're too cowardly to pull the trigger themselves.
Since 2007 a great number of Americans have found to their horror and despair that they have been lied to their entire lives about poor people scamming the system to live a luxurious life on welfare. It'd be funny if it wasn't so horrific.
2020 and the PUAC really hit it home. Millions were struggling to secure unemployment while watching their employers lay off large portions of their workforce to collect the PPP loans.
Because they allowed those interest free loans to be used for anything as long as a portion was used for wages it became a massive bailout for the owners while workers were lucky to get 40% of their previous wages.
Oh and tons of people, including me, applied to the fucking thing and literally never got paid at all. I got furloughed and was entitled to partial unemployment, but because I occasionally do work on the side it was a felony to not check the "self employed" checkbox.
Of course "self employed" checkbox isn't a label for a particular job, it's just a checkbox near the end. So to get unemployment with that box checked, someone has to contact you to figure out your situation, because they couldn't be fucking bothered to put the necessary input fields on their 1999-ass online form.
They never called me, they never returned my calls, and after a few weeks I just stopped applying and took the hit.
I applied for food stamps years ago, I think I got $300 over a couple months that could only be used on food, and it can't be pre-cooked or it doesn't qualify. I was told I wouldn't be allowed to apply again for like a decade? This was in one of the Dem stronghold states, I imagine it's worse elsewhere.
Thats... wow that's cruel as hell.
The cruelty is literally the point. The Calvinist psychopaths who have been in charge of the system since the 80s deliberately make it as humiliating and useless as possible to encourage the "worthy" poor to find a job at the job factory. They don't give a shit what happens to the "unworthy" poor who can't work, but they're too cowardly to pull the trigger themselves.
Since 2007 a great number of Americans have found to their horror and despair that they have been lied to their entire lives about poor people scamming the system to live a luxurious life on welfare. It'd be funny if it wasn't so horrific.
2020 and the PUAC really hit it home. Millions were struggling to secure unemployment while watching their employers lay off large portions of their workforce to collect the PPP loans.
Because they allowed those interest free loans to be used for anything as long as a portion was used for wages it became a massive bailout for the owners while workers were lucky to get 40% of their previous wages.
Oh and tons of people, including me, applied to the fucking thing and literally never got paid at all. I got furloughed and was entitled to partial unemployment, but because I occasionally do work on the side it was a felony to not check the "self employed" checkbox.
Of course "self employed" checkbox isn't a label for a particular job, it's just a checkbox near the end. So to get unemployment with that box checked, someone has to contact you to figure out your situation, because they couldn't be fucking bothered to put the necessary input fields on their 1999-ass online form.
They never called me, they never returned my calls, and after a few weeks I just stopped applying and took the hit.