For More Than A Million Food Stamp Recipients, The Clock Is Now Ticking | For unemployed adults in 22 states, that's how long they can count on help with the grocery bills: Starting this January, they have three months to find a job or lose their food assistance.

Doing what?

bussing tables. day labor. Construction work. cleaning trash. Cleaning bathrooms. Assisting carpenters with grunt work. gardening. snow removal. Moving company. Anything on craigslist. cleaning anything, really. janitorial work. salvage yards. That's just the top of my head, really. I'm sure if i put some thought into it, I could figure out some more.

my point that people in this thread have no idea what being poor is like

No. YOU don't have any idea what being poor is actually like. YOU only know "America poor" which is significantly richer than being poor in the rest of the world. In America, there are literally dozens of places--non governmental AND governmental--that will offer you a variety of benefits or assistance: from half-way houses, to churches, to food stamps and food banks, to the people that walk around the city and hand out sandwiches to the homeless. There are dozens of organizations in any given city that will gladly help people get on their feet and provide them with ample resources to help them climb.

Don't you dare tell me I don't know what it's like to be poor. And don't you dare--living in cushy America where you take ALL of your advantages for granted because you've been so coddled that you think life should be easy for everyone--think that YOU know what it's like to be poor. Because you don't. You don't know what actual poverty is, that's how privileged you are.

In America, the ONLY reason you are poor and stay that way is because you are A) Crazy or B) Lazy.

I have other immigrant friends who came over with NOTHING. They worked and they slaved and they saved. They lived in shitty conditions for YEARS earning only a few dollars an hour. But they saved. They didn't cry to daddy government to take care of them. They came ot America where they recognized there's opportunity and they built a life for themselves.

You are the epitome of "privileged entitlement."

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