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Originally posted by WarJohn
Two quick questions to answer in your head...
Are you gon' go to school and do all that hard school work, hoping it pays off, and just end up in a ton of debt with no decent paying jobs you'd qualify for in sight? Or are you gon' sit back and not work, and just let the SSI checks come with other sorts of spectacular benefits?
Originally posted by sligtlyskeptical
Originally posted by WarJohn
Two quick questions to answer in your head...
Are you gon' go to school and do all that hard school work, hoping it pays off, and just end up in a ton of debt with no decent paying jobs you'd qualify for in sight? Or are you gon' sit back and not work, and just let the SSI checks come with other sorts of spectacular benefits?
A lot of people go to school and have it pay off for them in a big way. Just look at all the big Wall Street and corporate guys. Most of them have Masters degrees. The first step to success is education but that in itself is not enough. You also have to be lucky and quite often be forced to act against the greater good.
There are many lines of work. If unsuccessful at one, try another.
Welfare and assistance should be used to get people back on their feet. It shouldn't be used by those who simply see it as an easier way. What you are contemplating is immoral and illegal from the point of view you express. However, the fact you are willing to cling to such a notion gives credence to the .idea that you truly need those benefits. So go for it., just don't expect anyone to do anything but look down on you.
Did you know all you have to do is go to a crisis center (emergency psych ward), ensure you get diagnosed with some kind of a mental illness, then get sent to a psychiatric hospital for a stay of just 5-7 days, follow the follow up treatment plan once you're out of hospitalization with a request for them to assist you to get on SSI (Suplementary Security Income) benefits and foodstamps, and you are all set to get by in life for life? This does indeed mean you no longer HAVE TO work to get by. They'll set you up in an apartment, too, to live semi-independently or independently once you stay in a group home. You'll be set. Trust me on that!
Originally posted by Lagrimas
No wonder the Rothschilds want depopulation, lower classes aren't slaves like the middle class.
Originally posted by WarJohn
Two quick questions to answer in your head...
Are you gon' go to school and do all that hard school work, hoping it pays off, and just end up in a ton of debt with no decent paying jobs you'd qualify for in sight? Or are you gon' sit back and not work, and just let the SSI checks come with other sorts of spectacular benefits?
Originally posted by consolution
Conspiracy of work? Maybe. If you look into the history of industrialization people needed to be forced to work, they needed to be taught to work as it was and is not natural to play the cog wheel in the machinery for 8-12 hours a day. Therefore I am sometimes a little surprised how vigorously certain groups that I naturally symphatize with defend old concepts of work.
Originally posted by MaMaa
Except that it is dishonest and cheating the system isn't fair to those who have to pay into it. People who work jobs pay the taxes that pay for these services to work. All so that someone who doesn't want to work, who expects someone else to take care of them can mooch off of an already strained and breaking system.