Reply #3: When I was homeless 20 years ago [View All]

[ThomCat]

caseworkers lied to me and told me I had earned $29 too much that year to qualify for any type of assistance. I found out later they told everyone that. It was the standard lie used in the Buffalo office to deny benefits to people.

That fact that this hurts women and children most doesn't seem to bother a lot of people. We have billions of dollars to give to wall street executives, mostly with no strings attached, but senators are still scouring legislation line by line that might possible help working class and poor people.

A lot of people are considered disposable. Not just in any one culture but in every culture. Women and girls are almost universally considered disposable. Poor people are always considered disposable.

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I slept on benches and figured out how to survive a dollar or two of food per day because these bastards lied to keep people off of public assistance. Can you imagine what that must do to a woman who had a child to feed?

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