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Old 01-26-2005, 02:41 PM
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Originally Posted by amber
It's worse than you think. Welfare is barely enough to live on. Oh, and I don't know about your dole, but of course, here, you can mainly only get welfare if you have children. And again, you can barely support them on it. It doesn't pay for school or child care while you are working/going to school. Of course, you can usually get more financial aid from school if you have kids...when I was young, you couldn't work even a little when you were on it, else they'd take it out of your funding - so no part time jobs. I think it is different now..
Blame it on Clinton. His Welfare Reform Act is a despicable piece of **** and showed how out of touch he was when it came to reality. If there's no one can find a reason to dislike him, that's one.
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