Wealthiest Americans say the poor have it easy

[donna123]

70. They need to raise the minimum wage to $15

at least. That will help a lot of people, not government benefits till the end of time. I read an article about people getting disability and how they have no incentive to try to work because if they do, they will end up with less because a crap minimum wage job will not give them as much as disability does, so who can blame them? I see fast food workers who are very nice, I am not sure I would be so pleasant if I had their job, and I support them getting raises. I can pay more and I would expect others can too if wages rise.

Having said this, I anecdotally see people who seem to take advantage of the system. I was in the market and saw a woman and her young daughter using what looked like a welfare card and they were buying expensive prepared foods, not milk, bananas, etc, and when I see something like that, it doesn't sit well with me. I know of a situation, an illegal immigrant, an older woman, who was living in the hospital because she needed dialysis but she could not get it if she left the hospital. She had family but they could not afford to help her, who could pay for those hospital bills? The situation was so crazy, it would have obviously been cheaper for taxpayers to set up dialysis for her and let her leave the hospital. Social workers tried to help her but could not find a way around the situation. Yes, it is horrible to say throw her out as she would die without dialysis but I think these are some of the things that make people angry. I also know of an older woman who gets all sorts of benefits, food, housing, healthcare, she is also an immigrant. She never worked in the US so she never contributed to this country, she has 5 children, at least 3 who are pretty well off, and who could support her, but because of the generosity of the state she lives in, she gets all this stuff because she does not have any assets, no pension, no money. She brags about all she gets for free because culturally, this is something people like her are proud of, rather than ashamed of, I guess, which I find weird.

It makes me angry to think my taxpayer dollars are going to some of these things. I am all for helping people who are struggling, especially women who do not get paid as much as men and especially those with children. This other stuff though, some states, I think their policies are too generous. I don't mean for this to be anti-immigrant either, the first example, they were American, white. It might seem strange to post this on this forum. I cannot stand fox news, I feel cops are too trigger happy and feel our justice system is flawed and is biased against black people, but I am feeling this way about this issue.