Just so everyone knows I am not all high and mighty on myself, just new to the area and don't think the normal thing is right. I don't have a problem with people who need food stamps, or welfare, or medicade. They are goverment programs set up for people who need them. The problem I have is with people who abuse them.
Today I am going to tell you a story about a girl that I work with, for lack of being cool like everyone else and making up a name for her, I will call her Jessica.
Jessica has 3 children, the oldest being 4 and youngest 1 month, with 3 different fathers for all the children. She has been marries twice, divoreced twice...It sounds like she is pretty far along in her life. But Jessica is 19 years old. She is single, works 1 job making $7.00 an hour lives off of welfare, food stamps, and medicaid. Jessica has 5 brothers, 1 sister, her mother, grandmother, and grandfater all live in Canton too. All of them give Jessica money, food, clothes, and everything she could need because of how unfortunate her life is.
Just last month she "bought" a house from her grandmother for $30,000. No she doesn't have credit or even a down payment, he grandfather got a loan for the house and gave her the money, and now has to work a second job to pay the house payment for her.
Yesterday Jessica was talking to one of the other women at work about how "deprived" she is, and by deprived I mean she hasn't been out making more babies. Her doctor just got her on birth control last week, and with just having a child a little over a month ago, she says she needs to start having sex again because she's really starting to get angry. Of all the people in the world she could procreate with, she decides to start dating her ex husbands brother. The woman that Jessica was talking to is a 39 year old mother of 4, working 3 jobs to support her family, and after Jessica told her all of this she promptly responded "Mabey you should put that birth control patch over your cunt, and shut your damn legs. That might keep you from having more kids". Of course Jessica stormed off offended and upset, having overheard this I started rolling on the floor laughing my butt off.
Later that day, Jessica had to let me know that next weekend is her 20th birthday, and that she will finally be a "
RESPONSIBLE ADULT". I looked her dead in the eyes and told her that her age has nothing to do with being responsible or even being an adult, and that until she can take care of herself and her children, make better choices with her life and her childrens lives, and stop relying on everyone else to do things for her, she will never be responsible or an adult.
I hate how people who would be wonderful, loving, and responsible parents can't have children, while people like this can't stop.
On the bright side she is a nice person.
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