07-05-2017, 04:14 PM
(This post was last modified: 07-05-2017, 04:27 PM by FireIceTalon.)
The US welfare state is one of the least generous among the developed world. I've been on welfare before (Snap program), and known many others who have, and let me tell you: There is absolutely nothing gracious about it. Not only is having to rely on the State to survive because your corporate master pays you so little demoralizing in itself, but having little or no extra money to do anything fun or interesting is pretty miserable and depressing as well. Then the shameful and scornful looks you get from people in the grocery store - you can feel the judgment a mile away. It is the epitome of Marx's concept of 'alienation".
I'm not in that situation anymore, thankfully, but the whole rhetoric that we spend way too much on welfare programs is one of the biggest lies we are told. No, what we spend way too much on is US imperialist wars and the for-profit prison system.
Although, the state of Washington did just pass a law that mothers may now get 12 weeks maternity leave paid. Pretty sad though that its only in one state and that such things are standard in just about every other developed country but ours. US is backwards and has a long ways to go, a VERY long ways to go.
I'm not in that situation anymore, thankfully, but the whole rhetoric that we spend way too much on welfare programs is one of the biggest lies we are told. No, what we spend way too much on is US imperialist wars and the for-profit prison system.
Although, the state of Washington did just pass a law that mothers may now get 12 weeks maternity leave paid. Pretty sad though that its only in one state and that such things are standard in just about every other developed country but ours. US is backwards and has a long ways to go, a VERY long ways to go.
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"Your very ideas are but the outgrowth of conditions of your bourgeois production and bourgeois property, just as your jurisprudence is but the will of your class, made into law for all, a will whose essential character and direction are determined by the economic conditions of the existence of your class." - Marx (addressing the bourgeois)
"Your very ideas are but the outgrowth of conditions of your bourgeois production and bourgeois property, just as your jurisprudence is but the will of your class, made into law for all, a will whose essential character and direction are determined by the economic conditions of the existence of your class." - Marx (addressing the bourgeois)