(December 11, 2016 at 9:31 am)Tonus Wrote:(December 11, 2016 at 1:35 am)Cecelia Wrote: I'll never understand why people are okay with wasting money on drug screening for those one welfare.
Because of the assumption that SteelCurtain referred to-- that most people on some form of assistance are drug abusers. It's easy to fall into the trap of thinking that the system is being defrauded by almost all of the recipients. Most people who are receiving welfare of some kind are aware of the stigma and aren't going to let anyone know about it, so the ones that stand out are the ones gaming the system in some way. It's not like the local news media is going to run stories on the people who use it as it was intended. They're going to cover the ones that milk the system illegally. And then there are the local drug addicts that people accuse of being on welfare even if they aren't, because they fit the stereotype.
There is waste and fraud and it's difficult to root it out, but the good that is done by welfare and similar programs is something that I wish could be quantified and also demonstrated with examples, so that people would understand how important they are. There's fraud and waste in many industries that we're willing to accept because they provide useful services (auto insurance is a good example). No one's demanding that we do away with auto insurance and telling people to "just drive better."
The heroin addicts in my area just used crisis loans. They'd say their bed caught fire and needed a new one or just simply say give me money or I'll kill myself.
Burglry was a huge problem too. But this was when I used to smoke and drink at my back door and talk loudly with my friends and that must have put them off, and they wouldn't target Pakistanis because of the risk. Every single elderly white person on either side of my house was targetted though. I saw one of them running along a garden once when I was shouting my cat to come in, I must have scared him out of the house he was in with my shouting. I called the police but it was too late.
Are you ready for the fire? We are firemen. WE ARE FIREMEN! The heat doesn’t bother us. We live in the heat. We train in the heat. It tells us that we’re ready, we’re at home, we’re where we’re supposed to be. Flames don’t intimidate us. What do we do? We control the flame. We control them. We move the flames where we want to. And then we extinguish them.
Impersonation is treason.
