03-09-2006, 03:20 PM
I would like to take the chance to say hogwash about a woman's earning potential my self.
This is entirely from my own observations and experiences that comes from watching people. Usually sitting on some bench in front of Walmart or Target.
I see these women, almost every day, and they are easy to spot. They pull in to Walmart in some big honking SUV, but they are not the Duckhead wearing soccer moms. They get out of their oversized rig, and they are wearing sports themed track suits, expensive ones, the kind that cost a couple of hundred bucks at some expensive store. They are wearing gaudy gold jewelry. To much, on to many fingers. Their SUV has giantic chrome "spinnaz" on it. Her kids get out, and there are about five or six of them, all of them wearing astonishingly beat up rags, everything obviously bought second hand. These kids look rough. They look filthy and hungry. They whine and cry contantly, asking for stuff, anything. It's obvious she hates them and sees them as baggage. And they go in and get groceries, and I often see them paying with a little green EBT food stamp card. I see them in the bank cashing Family Aid checks at the first of the month. (Family Aid is a type of welfare check, but they don't like to call it welfare, because the word welfare is considered racist and degrading for some reason) So, anyway, they go in and cash these Family Aid checks, which are calculated based on the size of the family, and with five or six kids, can shoot up to about sixteen hundred a month. Maybe a little more, a little less. For nice round numbers, we will just say 1500 dollars.
So, 1500 bucks, plus several hundred dollars in food stamps. I'll leave that actual figure out, because it's not actually cash. It's an EBT card with electronic funds. Now, these women rake it in with the child support to, on top of all the "Family Aid" they get. Lets shoot for a nice round figure of, oh, I dunno, 400 dollars a week like was quoted in the news paper a good while back ago. Or even 200 dollars. It really doesn't matter. At 200 a week, with say, five kids, five daddies, that's a cool grand. At 400, that's two grand. A week. Four or eight grand a month, on top of welfare handouts. Er, wait, "Family Aid." Suddenly it becomes clear how these women are driving Escalades and crap like that. And how they can afford all that tacky gold jewelry. And really good lawyers, REALLY GOOD LAWYERS! to make sure they get every penny they deserve from their baby's daddy. And for the cherry on top, they are living in public housing, section 8 or HUD, for probably 250 a month or so. And might even get free cable and no power bill depending on the housing development.
Mind you, these are the extremes, but they are common place. These are people abusing the system to no end. These people sit back and actually make money, and live a very comfortable life doing absolutely nothing while some poor guy goes out and works two or three jobs trying to clear up a couple of hundred dollars a week for support, his own 400 to 450 a month in rent, (common for this area) his own power bill, and his own expenses, which really become tight and everything goes bad when he is a couple of days late and they come and repo his car, which makes it impossible to get to work, and begins the domino effect that leads him to jail. In jail, he loses his jobs. Once he gets out, with no job, no car, and a week to find work, his chances aint good. He just got out of jail, so actually getting a job is slim. He has no car. After sitting in jail for a month or two, he might not have a home either. And aint nobody going to hire somebody with no car, and no residence, that just got out of jail. So guess where he winds up...
I would say women have a better earning potential for doing absolutely nothing but spending a few minutes on her back, and a few hours spent here and there making sure she gets everything rightfully coming to her that she is entitled to through the system.
The only ones I feel sorry for are the real victims, the ones that slip through the cracks somehow and actually live terrible lives.
This is entirely from my own observations and experiences that comes from watching people. Usually sitting on some bench in front of Walmart or Target.
I see these women, almost every day, and they are easy to spot. They pull in to Walmart in some big honking SUV, but they are not the Duckhead wearing soccer moms. They get out of their oversized rig, and they are wearing sports themed track suits, expensive ones, the kind that cost a couple of hundred bucks at some expensive store. They are wearing gaudy gold jewelry. To much, on to many fingers. Their SUV has giantic chrome "spinnaz" on it. Her kids get out, and there are about five or six of them, all of them wearing astonishingly beat up rags, everything obviously bought second hand. These kids look rough. They look filthy and hungry. They whine and cry contantly, asking for stuff, anything. It's obvious she hates them and sees them as baggage. And they go in and get groceries, and I often see them paying with a little green EBT food stamp card. I see them in the bank cashing Family Aid checks at the first of the month. (Family Aid is a type of welfare check, but they don't like to call it welfare, because the word welfare is considered racist and degrading for some reason) So, anyway, they go in and cash these Family Aid checks, which are calculated based on the size of the family, and with five or six kids, can shoot up to about sixteen hundred a month. Maybe a little more, a little less. For nice round numbers, we will just say 1500 dollars.
So, 1500 bucks, plus several hundred dollars in food stamps. I'll leave that actual figure out, because it's not actually cash. It's an EBT card with electronic funds. Now, these women rake it in with the child support to, on top of all the "Family Aid" they get. Lets shoot for a nice round figure of, oh, I dunno, 400 dollars a week like was quoted in the news paper a good while back ago. Or even 200 dollars. It really doesn't matter. At 200 a week, with say, five kids, five daddies, that's a cool grand. At 400, that's two grand. A week. Four or eight grand a month, on top of welfare handouts. Er, wait, "Family Aid." Suddenly it becomes clear how these women are driving Escalades and crap like that. And how they can afford all that tacky gold jewelry. And really good lawyers, REALLY GOOD LAWYERS! to make sure they get every penny they deserve from their baby's daddy. And for the cherry on top, they are living in public housing, section 8 or HUD, for probably 250 a month or so. And might even get free cable and no power bill depending on the housing development.
Mind you, these are the extremes, but they are common place. These are people abusing the system to no end. These people sit back and actually make money, and live a very comfortable life doing absolutely nothing while some poor guy goes out and works two or three jobs trying to clear up a couple of hundred dollars a week for support, his own 400 to 450 a month in rent, (common for this area) his own power bill, and his own expenses, which really become tight and everything goes bad when he is a couple of days late and they come and repo his car, which makes it impossible to get to work, and begins the domino effect that leads him to jail. In jail, he loses his jobs. Once he gets out, with no job, no car, and a week to find work, his chances aint good. He just got out of jail, so actually getting a job is slim. He has no car. After sitting in jail for a month or two, he might not have a home either. And aint nobody going to hire somebody with no car, and no residence, that just got out of jail. So guess where he winds up...
I would say women have a better earning potential for doing absolutely nothing but spending a few minutes on her back, and a few hours spent here and there making sure she gets everything rightfully coming to her that she is entitled to through the system.
The only ones I feel sorry for are the real victims, the ones that slip through the cracks somehow and actually live terrible lives.
All alone, or in twos,
The ones who really love you
Walk up and down outside the wall.
Some hand in hand
And some gathered together in bands.
The bleeding hearts and artists
Make their stand.
And when they've given you their all
Some stagger and fall, after all it's not easy
Banging your heart against some mad buggers wall.
"Isn't this where...."
The ones who really love you
Walk up and down outside the wall.
Some hand in hand
And some gathered together in bands.
The bleeding hearts and artists
Make their stand.
And when they've given you their all
Some stagger and fall, after all it's not easy
Banging your heart against some mad buggers wall.
"Isn't this where...."