moldyoldy wrote:
Austria, Austria, Austria, not US.
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I know other stories just as bad from here in the USA. In Rhode Island, I knew a couple who divorced so that she and their three kids could go on welfare, ADC (Aid to Families with Dependent Children) & get food stamps & the other 'allowances' accorded the recipients. He stayed at the house on weekends & during the week got up early to be out of the house by 9 when the case worker might come by.
I once saw a woman in our emergency room who had five children with four different last names and she had a fifth. She was on ADC (Aid to Families with Dependent Children), tooled around in a Lincoln Town Car & wore an ankle length fur coat. I treated a woman on state disability who expressed the desire for her back not to bother her because she was going to Bermuda the next week.
I also employed a woman whose father was active in political circles & knew many of the various state bureaucrats. She'd go to work for the minimum time necessary to qualify for unemployment & then engineer some kind of a confrontation and walk out, claiming she was fired so she could then 'collect,' as the saying was in Little Rhody. I fought her application but he still was awarded it. I'm sure he used his behind the scenes connections over it.
It was a way of life for people. The saying was he or she 'was collecting.' Everyone knew what it meant. Rhode Island has a very generous unemployment allowance & its welfare allowance is the best statewide in the country. It's a magnet state for welfare.
In our ER, we'd treat women on ADC (Aid to Families with Dependent Children) & then you'd run into them in a neighborhood restaurant as waitresses. They were working 'under the table,' as that saying went.
We called Rhode Island The People's Republic of Rhode Island. It gave Al Bore, er Gore, his largest percentage victory in 2000. After one e******n the Republicans were reduced to six in one of the state houses.
Most of the younger women were on the pill, so the taxpayers subsidized their sexual misbehavior, a situation whose moral objections probably escape moldyoldy and those who think like him. I'm sure he'll cite that without the pill there might be more children to go on the dole and to that extent, he's correct but the moral questions I am sure, escape him.