They Just Don't Wanna Work! -  The Perks of Poverty -

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I'll just assume that the prevailing notion that many able bodied people prefer life on welfare to working (bums) is commonly thought as the reason persons find themselves dependent on "welfare".  Here are some other reasons to consider:

• unemployable due to disability
• unemployable due to illness
• unemployable due to mental illness
• unemployable due to illiteracy
• unemployable due to psychological illness (grief, trauma, victimization)
• unemployable due to immigration status not allowing person to work
• unemployable due to substance abuse issues which have not resolved
• unemployable due to not being presentable (no place to cleanup, no decent clothes, incontinent, tendency to projectile vomit, lacking teeth, scarring, drooling - well, you get the picture)
• unemployable due to history (criminal record, mental health history, etc)

trapped along with the above, their children who must live in this poverty also.

• rat bites
• cockroaches & bed bugs
• abusive landlords, citizens, police, social workers
• learning there is no bottom and it can always be worse
• interesting skin lesions and infectious diseases
• without shelter, only drink and drugs keep you warm and sane
• an abusive relationship may be the only way to have shelter for your kids
• fighting to love the way you are, with fewer teeth, scars, hair, dry yellowing skin
• government decides a safe place to shoot up matters more than a safe place to live
• your math skills are second to none thanks to needing to calculate the number of meals one has to skip to afford toilet paper or a cab trip home from hospital after day surgery
• people skills are fine tuned by begging to make ends meet
• thanks to the government's relaxed attitude to Cannabis use, job offers come in as a freelance distributor with opportunities to expand to other pharmaceuticals

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