Just yesterday, I completed an application for snap benefits. That’s all I wanted and needed assistance with. Because I’m a part-time worker, my finances at times get strapped because I’m paying off a loan from a bank and it makes my working budgets feel a little compressed. I need some breathing room here.
I hope I get them but I never intend to be on it forever, I just need some financial security and resource assurance. I’ve always tried being a person who looked to things like this and only go to them when I needed them, not because I wanted them and mooch off from them.
No one should.
Think about how much you’ve paid in taxes in your life. What could possibly be wrong with trying to get some of that money back?
Not only that, it prevents them from spending it turning little brown children into skeletons in various ways.
Rich people have their hands out 24/7.
Look at all the government money Musk took.
Ronald Reagan got rich by making sure he was always the poorest guy in the room. He sucked up to his bosses at General Electric [then one of the biggest companies in the USA] and got to invest in sweetheart deals.
George W. Bush was given a US major league baseball team.
Take every penny your qualify for.
No fucking way, give me what’s mine by right of being a citizen and paying taxes. Fuck guilt.
Fuck no
Nope. I got laid off over a year ago, then diagnosed with cancer. I feel guilty for being detered by how complicated some of them are and for not taking full advantage of the programs while I’m at a point where I really do need them and qualify for them. I’m on the mend now, and as soon as I can find a job again, I’ll be glad to be paying back into those programs.
Glad to hear you’re on the mend! Don’t feel guilty, feel angry they make vital programs so complicated and difficult to apply and get approved for
Government assistance is simply the replacement for what society took from you, the option to sustain yourself by foraging. Society as a whole decided that they WANT people to not starve on the street. Get what you deserve.
No, I paid for those benefits. I got laid off once and even though my company paid me severance I still signed up for unemployment benefits. While employed they took money out of my check every pay period for that purpose.
As for snap, your employer should feel guilty for not paying you enough.
No. I pay taxes while using none of those programs and those programs are there to give people a hand up who are struggling. You deserve a roof over your head, a warm & safe place to sleep, clean water to drink and bathe, and decent food to eat. You are human and trying to meet your basic needs. People who have more can support those who have less. Simple.
The programs are there for a reason. Don’t listen to idiots with an IQ lower than the number of M&Ms that come in a Halloween serving.
That’s just the capitalist brainwashing we’re all subjected to. Do you think that the pedo parasite class feels bad when they get billions in taxpayer funded subsidies kickbacks and tax breaks to build up their corporate empires while they privatize all the profits, get rid of labor laws, regulations and social safety nets so they can leech even more taxpayer money at our expense?
I think guilt tripping is part of it in the US. Here (Europe) we just apply for the stuff that were eligible for.
In the UK, too. The whole process seems designed to be as intrusive, dehumanising, and shaming as possible.
Can confirm.
As The Clash say in “Know Your Rights”:
You have the right to food money
Provided of course
You don’t mind a little
Investigation
Humiliation
And if you cross your fingers
RehabilitationBecause it is.
Bingo. They save money when people don’t apply for benefits they deserve or have “earned” in the US.
You paid your tax benefits before and you’ll pay them for the rest of your life. Get what you paid for.
You exist, therefore you’re worthy.
Fuck no
Every paycheck for twenty plus years, I calmly and without complaint saw taxes and fica taken out of each check because that’s how you have a social safety net.
I sure as fuck didn’t pay in because I could afford it, I paid in because it’s mandatory.
So you, me, whoever, is 100% justified in using the social safety net we all paid and pay into because that’s what it’s for in the first place.
Never, ever feel guilty about it brougham.
Do you feel guilty when you are paid for your work?
No. You are an employee and you work and you are entitled to payment for your work.
Same goes for government assistance. You are a citizen and you are entitled to that assistance. It’s literally no different. Our democracy set that assistance aside for you. It’s yours, and until Congress changes the rules, you are entitled to it.
