No the baby mamma is also on medicaid. Obamacare is helping too. Also 20% of Ronald McD house $ comes from Government. He's a typical Republican hypocrite. He should have his baby mamma and baby on his insurance. It's bullshit. It's what Republicans talk about when they say welfare has destroyed the family. Rather than marry the baby daddy they stay single so she can collect government cheese.
I know your defense of collecting unemployment. It's the same defense every Republican makes when they eat their words that they would never even collect unemployment. They'd instead go work at McDonald before they'd do that. I've seen time and time again that's not the case. And many of you chose to collect unemployment long after your company wanted you to come back. You took the extensions too.
So now you have moved the goal post to the most extreme abuses. You don't mind minor abuses now huh? You see there is a spectrum now?
I’m not a republican—I’m Alt-right, so I’m not qualified to know what your individual friend does or doesn’t do, or what he supports as a Republican. Additionally, that is a personal anecdote, which isn’t very valuable because other anecdotes can contradict that. For instance, the people in my family have refused all forms of aid even when it was offered to them. My grandfather and his many brothers wouldn’t even take Meals on Wheels because they were too ashamed. My older sister is blind, but will not take a dime, so my retired parents have to care for her on their single pension.
If you are asking me whether your friend and this woman are pulling a scam--Yeah, they are....but at least they are voting against their self-interest when it pertains to that scam, rather than trying to vote themselves a raise, which is what the Dems are forever doing. That's why formerly wealthy places like California (the Golden State) are now dirt poor.
I don’t see any contradiction in voting against welfare programs, but also receiving them if available. If that is the system that the country votes for, and we all must live with them, then why should some people only be payers and only suffer the consequences of such programs, but not also profit by them, if needed? But then, when given the opportunity, they can vote to reduce them, and it isn't a contradiction.
Secondly, you cannot conflate unemployment insurance with Welfare. They are not the same thing at all. People who never worked a day in their lives can receive welfare—people who do not belong in the country can receive welfare, welfare covers medical needs, food, housing, heating and cooling, childcare, etc…Unemployment is only available for people who were laid off and it is paid for—NOT by TAX DOLLARS-- but by the employer and the employee involved, and it only covers approximately 50 percent of their salary and nothing else. That is Not Welfare.
If you are talking about the many endless extensions that came along with Covid, well that is a different animal altogether. People were banned from going to work by the government. They were told that they were going to die and they were going to kill others if they go to their jobs. So, I understand the reluctance of many people to go back. They emotionally and psychologically tortured people during the past 18 months, so what we see not is unprecedented and anomalous.
