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Originally posted by winneythepooh7
Obviously spoken by someone who has never taken a social welfare organization & policy course. I am sorry but as a Social Worker I strongly disagree with your ignorant post. We are not encouraged to "look the other way" and "not ask questions". Do you understand how stereotypical and down right disgusting your post is? Do you actually believe that most poor people are happy being on welfare and making their couple dollars per month? I am sorry but you are sadly mistaken, being on welfare and public assistance does not give anyone a "better standard of living". I encourage you to join me on any typcial day "in the field" to see the sad reality of what many poor people in our society are up against. How do you expect people to get jobs that have no skills? And how do you expect people to be able to make a decent living on low paying jobs such as working at McDonald's? Then what about the majority of people who are poor because they are disabled or have mental illness who CANNOT work. Shame on you KTSNAKE. I think you need to do some research.
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All I know are what the people in my brother's section 8 apartment complex tell him. It's actually a fairly nice place and they're happy the way things are.
Maybe things in Oklahoma are different? I work in family law, so I have plenty of contact with social workers. I can tell you that they really don't ask too many questions when someone applies for benefits. I've seen some f'd up abuses of the system here.
I'm not talking about the "majority" of people, just what I've observed first-hand.