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71% of Americans think the US should spend more on "assistance to the poor". But if you use the word "welfare" that number drops to 30% (lemmy.world)

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

People acting like gaming welfare is easy. Fuck me, it's a full-time job getting anything at all.

For example: Been thinking about trying to get some food stamps. Wife works, I'm unemployed, maybe get a little of the tax money back from when I was making bank? Maybe get a pittance of unemployment? I can scarcely imagine navigating all the bullshit if I wasn't technically capable. Kafkaesque bureaucracy indeed.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I got fired from a job, rather unjustly, and attempted to file for unemployment.

It made no sense, I could not navigate my states website (which didn’t want to play well with Linux anyway), so I gave up. Which is the point.

One time an employer fired me and refused to pay me after discovering I was trans, and it literally took 6 months to get that check. The system is designed to fuck people.