A Ennis
A Ennis
Jul 23, 2017 · 3 min read

You know… I’ve had a crazy life.

One of the things about my life is that I had to go on welfare.

Imagine my surprise when they told me that I had to have kids, be working or in school full time to get benefits. For so long I had heard that you could just collect when you need it. Also had to make less than $700 a month I think for two kids. Luckily I made less and I wanted to go to school.

So I signed up and welfare put me through nursing school. I only had one year I could collect , there was no infinite payment available. I had to sign up for a course that was sped up and crammed with more information than safe.

Welfare just isn’t what people think it is. The only government help you can get that has no time limit and work or school standard is disability, and those people have to have court dates with lawyers and judges to decide if they qualify. About 40% get denied.

Welfare saved my life and it allowed me to become a productive member of society that could support my children.

It lifted me up.

The time of my life while on welfare was a nightmare. I had two kids under the age of 6, living in shelters. In school full time and working for part of that time.

My days started in the dark. I woke up and got two kids ready to be the very first kids at the before school program, and we would wait for the place to open. Then I would race to work, and after I worked I would race to school. And then be the last parent to pick my two girls up at night . When it was dark.

Then I would go home and cook dinner, do homework and give baths and tuck kids into bed and stay up and study sometimes. And do it all over the next day. There were months on end I had not one break from my kids. And every day over and over again, the same thing.

I would sit in class and watch people struggle that lived at home with their parents and had no kids.

It’s hilarious to me that welfare has some stigma of being for lazy people who are just doing it to suck off the government’s tit.

I don’t know many people to this day that could have done what I did for one week, let alone years.

What I found is that people on welfare are more like me. They work harder than anyone .. and they’re all trying to get out of poverty.

It’s amazing to me that people still don’t get that .. that people actually think that people want to be that poor.

I got $700 dollars a month of welfare and I got another $200 of food stamps. They paid for my child care.

In European countries all of those things , child care, housing , healthcare , college , food and school are all free or subsidized so that no one has to worry about them. Someone in Sweden, Norway, Finland, Netherlands, Denmark, so many more never has to worry about being hungry or going homeless. Or child care costs . Or medical costs. Or even internet.

Is it any wonder they have better educational systems then we do? Less health issues , mental and physical ? That on average most people have at least a Masters Degree ? They have the lowest crime rates in the world and the happiest countries in the world.

And no poverty.

Those are the actual results of a welfare state.

Did I also mention , Europeans have less children than anyone else in the world? Interesting .

Must be that minimum paid month long vacation law.

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