Rant - how fucked up is the system?

[Jackalope]

So I have a friend who, along with her two kids, is at risk of becoming homeless. Her deadbeat ex lost his job, and so has no paycheck to garnish for the child support he would otherwise not pay. The state will eventually garnish his unemployment insurance - to the tune of about a hundred bucks a month.

Meanwhile, my friend hasn't been receiving child support at all for a few months, and has fallen behind on the rent, and the landlord is threatening eviction.

A call to the local PHA (Public Housing Authority) was in order. Sure, they can put her on a waiting list for temporary assistance - when the list reopens in three years.

[Phatt Matt s]

So I have a friend who, along with her two kids, is at risk of becoming homeless. Her deadbeat ex lost his job, and so has no paycheck to garnish for the child support he would otherwise not pay. The state will eventually garnish his unemployment insurance - to the tune of about a hundred bucks a month.

Meanwhile, my friend hasn't been receiving child support at all for a few months, and has fallen behind on the rent, and the landlord is threatening eviction.

A call to the local PHA (Public Housing Authority) was in order. Sure, they can put her on a waiting list for temporary assistance - when the list reopens in three years.

So the Government won't provide help for a women with children even if it means they are homeless for a while? But we can spend a million dollars on a single tomahawk missle that we launch in Libya? WTF!

[Jackalope]

So the Government won't provide help for a women with children even if it means they are homeless for a while? But we can spend a million dollars on a single tomahawk missle that we launch in Libya? WTF!

Pretty much seems to be the case.

[Phatt Matt s]

That dude in the white house needs to start kissing everyone's ass. Nothin but empty promises

People that voted for him are really starting to regret it!

[NoraBrimstone]

That's fucking disgusting. What the hell are you paying taxes for if your most vulnerable citizens aren't being helped?

In my country, in that situation you can go to your local council and they'd HAVE TO give you a place to stay if you were in that situation. It would only be a room in a B&B at first, but then they put you in "temporary accommodation" while you're on the waiting list for as long as it takes for them to house you properly.

You guys need a system more like that.

[Minimalist]

So I have a friend who, along with her two kids, is at risk of becoming homeless. Her deadbeat ex lost his job, and so has no paycheck to garnish for the child support he would otherwise not pay. The state will eventually garnish his unemployment insurance - to the tune of about a hundred bucks a month.

Meanwhile, my friend hasn't been receiving child support at all for a few months, and has fallen behind on the rent, and the landlord is threatening eviction.

A call to the local PHA (Public Housing Authority) was in order. Sure, they can put her on a waiting list for temporary assistance - when the list reopens in three years.

The republibertarianeo-conazi view of "heaven" right there.

[Jackalope]

That's fucking disgusting. What the hell are you paying taxes for if your most vulnerable citizens aren't being helped?

We buy bombs, duh. So we can bomb people the fuckers that run this country don't like.

You guys need a system more like that.

We let people become homeless so they can beg their way out of poverty on freeway onramps.

I'm thoroughly disgusted at the state of affairs here.

[Crossless2.0]

This is shameful. How old are the children?

[Jackalope]

This is shameful. How old are the children?

One is a young adult. The other is 14.

[NoraBrimstone]

So all three of them could in fact work to pay the rent?