$2000 income, after tax
$1200 rent, $200 utilities, $320 groceries, $175 insurance, $205 miscellaneous (including gas, etc.)
God forbid this person gets sick. Right now they can’t afford health insurance because it costs $50 a week at work. They work 45 hours a week and haven’t been able to find another job because of a job that requires some travel.
This does not describe my situation but seems like a very real scenario for a real person. Their taxes go to support people that are poor and don’t work so they can get medical care.
I think the poor should not get medical care until our working people have it. Let them get jobs too. What do you say?
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The welfare system is sick…. A family member of ours lives on welfare and my husband works full time and I work part time. We live on a tight budget and pay our mortgage, health insurance, car payment, groceries, car and homeowners insurance, gas, electric, gasoline for the vehicles, school lunches, school clothes, etc, etc. …. Said family member gets their rent paid for by section 8, food stamps ($800/month for a family of 4…which is twice as much as we get to spend on groceries), free lunches for their kids, and receive heap to pay for their gas and electric bills… The only bills that they don’t get paid for them is car insurance!!! How is it that we work so hard and have to question our every financial move and these family members get to sit on their arses all day and then complain when they have to pack their kid a lunch for field trip day!!!! If one of us has to go to the ER for some reason we get hit with a $60 copay but they run their kids to the ER for an ear infection or cold 10 times a year and it doesn’t cost them a cent!! I think that people do deserve to have medical treatment, but those of us who work for our insurance shouldn’t get punished with these outrageous copays. It should be the other way around, if your health insurance is free then you should have to pay a copay and if you pay for your insurance then you shouldn’t have to pay a copay also. GRRR… I could rant and rave about these people forever…
The major problem is the rent. In many countries, the government bulid cheap housing with affordable rent for the everyone. In Singapore, the government make sure everyone can afford a home ( government subsidies ).
Don’t buy so much groceries. The chances you will starve to death tomorrow are highly unlikely.
sounds awesome but rent is 1200 a month??
I disagree completely. All those thing you listed could be easily changed/altered for medical insurance. Oh, i forgot, they NEED that lifestyle. 1200 for rent. Easily could be 800 for rent. 320 for groceries, easily change to 200. That’s your medical insurance right there. The poor are not so lucky with having those decisions/opportunities. Why do people always look at the poor for getting basic benefits. Instead of the rich, who get much more breaks, that they don’t earn/need.
Edit–I would like to add that the poor ones are the first to be sent off to war, to keep the rich safe and happy in their homes with their lifestyle. Ask how many soldiers would be over in Iraq if it wasn’t for poor people. They’re also the most patriotic.
I too, am tired of those on welfare having more than my family and me, and my husband and I both work. The house across the street from me was purchased by the County, and a family with 5 kids live there…The County pays their heat, electric and water, and the County even sends out people to mow their lawn. I don’t know if they have to pay anything to live there, and if so, what they pay, but nobody works, and the dad just bought a $5000 stereo system for his van that blasts the bass so loud it actually vibrates my walls. The kids pick on other kids in the neighborhood and the cops are out constantly. One of the kids was suspended for bringing a knife to school. I think they are dealing drugs out of the house as cars drive up at all hours, someone runs to the door for about a minute and back into the car. I own my home, pay mortgage and property taxes, and these people get a free ride and also disrupt our neighborhood.