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Originally posted by winneythepooh7
I think you sound very ignorant. It is not easy to get benefits, and how do YOU know what the people living in your brother's apt. complex situations are? What makes them "social services leaches"? And for your information people who SHOULD be getting benefits packages are getting rejected every day. Take a look at the news this evening regarding the homeless situation in NYC.
www.ny1news.com
I am not bringing up "a bunch of crap" I am only proving how people like you make an awful lot of ASSUMPTIONS and you know what they say about people who make ASSumptions.............
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Okay, when they brag about how easy it is to work the system and collect a check, yeah, I tend to think of them as leaches. When they're living at home with their kids and sitting on their butts all day, yeah.. I tend to think that's abusing the system. When they say that all they have to do is show they they were turned down for a job in order to continue benefits... Yup. Abusing the system. Some situations may be complex, some may be as simple as not wanting to work and seeing this as a pleasant alternative. The apartment complex is a pretty decent place in the middle of a college town. Not a bad place to raise a kid. It has decent schools. Now, I do know that there is a lot of crime in that particular complex (seems to come with the territory when we're talking Section 8).
I don't think I'd have to be going out on a limb to say that things in New York and Oklahoma are VERY different. We've represented plenty of people who have had dealings with DHS -- I can say that in my DIRECT dealings with DHS, they were pretty clueless and overwhelmed. They are more likely to just hand out the packages than to ask questions. Could do with the fact that unlike in NY, as far as I know to be a social worker in Oklahoma, you just need a Bachelor's Degree (in any field). I understand that y'all are required to have Masters Degrees.