You’ve been on welfare for over ten years. I have watched you go from an educated academic to a trailer trash drunk during those years. You can work but you won’t, nothing’s good enough for you. You use all your friends and cut them off cold if they don’t agree with you (even if they’ve given you thousands of dollars in furniture and goods to help you out). You tried to suck me into your vortex of paying friends but I refused and got shit on for it. Not that I cared after you ripped me off for 200 bucks a few years back. Well, sister, I am at the end of my rope with you. I’m tired of your so-called hilarious stories about hookers and the other dredges of humanity you find entertaining. I’m weary of your drunken, violent boyfriends who you entertain because they supply you with booze and smokes. I’m sick of listening you blame everyone for your situation when only you are at fault. You walked away from your husband, your daughter and a decent job 12 years ago just so you didn’t have to be responsible for other people. Your selfishness is disgusting and if I never see you again, I could care less. I used to care about you so much but I loathe the person you have become. So fuck off.
—Fed Up Fed Up Fed Up
This article appears in Feb 19-25, 2009.
There’s really not much incentive to get off of social assistance. Great health insurance, free money…no time limit….shit.
A friend of mine is on EI. He’s required to go to these bullshit meetings/workshops/whatever the fuck they are at service canada, yet there’s no such requirement for recipients of social assistance and people who draw EI have paid into the program!
Not saying being on welfare is “the good life,” but not having to get up off your ass and actually show up at a job (and *gasp* actually doing work!) and STILL having money coming in doesn’t sound too tragic.
It’s no wonder people stay on social assistance so long (some do it for generations!): the government makes it too easy for people to go on it and stay on it — even for people who are capable of working.
How can I get one of those gigs. Sounds sweet,
Try having a co-worker who does nothing and your stuck with all the work. My co-worker should be on welfare and stay home all day and do nothing. Instead he comes to work and does nothing and gets paid for it.
You must work for the federal government, M.
I often wonder why these kinds of bitches are posted on a public forum instead of being emailed directly to the individual getting hated on. If you were really fed up, that’s what you’d do, or at least text her saying, “Hey, Sis! Check out the LTWWB section in The Coast this week! Far out!”