Welfare Ain’t What It Used To Be
Sharon Jasper has been victimized. Sharon Jasper has been rabidly wronged. She has become a Section 8 carcass, the victim of ever changing public housing policies.
Sharon Jasper has spent 57 of her 58 years dedicated to one cause and one cause only, and has nothing to show for her dedicated servitude. She has lived in Section 8 housing all but one of her 58 years. This legacy was passed down from her parents, who moved into Section 8 housing in 1949 when Sharon was six months old. She has passed the legacy down to her own children, but fears they may have to get jobs to pay for the utilities and deposits that Section 8 is now requiring. She laments about her one year hiatus from the comfort of her Section 8 nirvana: “I tried it for a year… you know… working and all. It’s not anything I would want to go through again, or wish on anyone in my family, but I am damn proud of that year.”
After hurricane Katrina, Sharon moved out of the St. Bernard housing project and into a new, albeit substandard, quarterage. As can be noted from the above photo of her new Section 8 home, it is repugnant and not suitable for someone of Sharon Jasper’s senior status in the system. “Don’t be fooled by them hardwood floors,” says Sharon. “They told me they were putting in scraped wood floors cause it was more expensive and elegant, but I am not a fool–that was just a way to make me take scratched up wood because I am black. The 60 inch HD TV? It may look nice but it is not a plasma. It’s not a plasma because I’m black. Now they want me to pay a deposit and utilities on this dump. Do you know why?”
She has held her tongue through years of abuse by the system, but it came to a head at the New Orleans city council meeting where discussions were under way about the tearing down of the St. Bernard projects. When a near riotous exchange between two groups, one opposing the tearing down of St. Bernard and the other wanting the dilapidated buildings torn down and newer ones built, Sharon unleashed verbal hell with her once silenced tongue. The object of her oratory prowess was an acquiescent poor white boy in attendance. The content of her scathing rebuke was, “just because you pay for my house, my car, my big screen and my food, I will not be treated like a slave!” and “back up and shut up! Shut up, white boy! Shut up, white boy!”
Recapping from the mental log of the city council minutes in her head, Sharon repines, “our families have been displaced all over the United States. They are being forced to commit crimes in cities they are unfamiliar with. It is a very uncomfortable situation for them. Bring them back, then let’s talk about redevelopment.”
To try to bring notice to her tribulations, Sharon has graciously allowed parts of her slummy abode to be photographed for documentation of her abuse.
Shown above is the dining room that the housing authority pawned off on her. Sharon will acknowledge that it is nice and all, but the “man” knows she has 25 family members to feed and the size is inadequate. She believes she is the recipient of malevolence by “the man.”
Above is her bathroom, intended to taunt her because “the man” knows she is going to have to start paying her utility bills and wants to run-up her water and towel bills. Once again, she is the recipient of malevolence by “the man.”
Above is the stocked wine cellar that came with her new Section 8 house. Sharon states that this is another example of the white man taking advantage of poor black women. “Look at all these bottles of wine,” she said. “They are worthless. Just another example of thinking I am stupid. All this wine is at least 10 years old and some of it is 20 years old, you know the white man kept all the fresh stuff for himself. I ain’t that stupid.”
Sharon directs the reporter’s attention across the street to Duncan Plaza, where homeless people are living in tents, and states that, “I might do better out there with one of those tents.” She further lamented about her situation, “I might be poor, but I don’t have to live poor.”
Sharon Jasper is not going down without a fight. She is the head of a tenant association that works with the AFL-CIO’s Gulf Coast Revitalization Program, which is working closely with the Congressional Black Caucus, which is working very closely with Rev. Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson to get a bill, operation Section 8 Time Share, passed in Congress. The bill would allow people of seniority, like Sharon Jasper, who have been loyal recipients of Section 8 housing for a minimum of 20 years, to be able to use a special Section 8 permit for a time share vacation home two weeks out of the year in a tropical location.
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Oh deer vey agitated I see my fingers did not do well typing, sorry for the difficult read on my comments above, Im just to aggitated for words.
Dear Sharon,
I hope the government gave you a computer that of course should have internet access. Because I need for you to be able to read all of the comments that your story spured. Personaly, I will certainly be more than happy to help your famliy members here in the Houston area, steeling and robbing the working peolpe here blind, to get back home to New Orleans. The big picture I have in mind is a vision of bus loads of displaced Katrina refugees traveling East to get back home so they can comfort you during these diffcult times. Like I said I will make a very generous donation to the cause and help you out this one time, because at 85..86 you probably do not have that many years left here on GOD’S green earth to properly groom the next generation of welfare recipents. I truely hate to see your suffering.
xoxo
I have MANY friends, both Democrat and Republican, from all ethnic groups that I interact with often and whom I admire dearly. Raised in an East Texas family of Democrats, I changed to Republican after knowing that I agreed with Conservative precepts rather than Liberal. I say this to make the point that ‘change comes naturally over time.’ Changes in my thinking… and changes in programs. From abuse, welfare has morphed into something other than what it was designed (see #198 Lea) (and thanks to jimbyrd for this contribution WELFARE AIN’T WHAT IT USED TO BE). Like sex, welfare can be a good thing when treated properly… a bad thing when it turns to rape. Same ingredients, different treatment and outcome.
Many of my friends work very hard for a decent living, which brings me to another important point of my message. With amnesty advocated under a Liberal President and Congress, our nation’s workers will multiply in number and hardship. That’s a given. I have a very real, heartfelt concern about jobs that will be taken from my friends… as well as those others who are struggling in our America. The recent debate between the two Democratic presidential candidates gave a clear message of amnesty on their agenda. Therefore, the math is simple… more outsiders equals fewer jobs. With cleanup of the welfare system, we can help a greater number of the needy… AND THE NUMBER OF NEEDY IS GREAT! I would certainly volunteer to do my part.
Education is a mighty force.
Quote: “A lot of fellows nowadays have a B.A., M.D., or Ph.D. Unfortunately, they don’t have a J.O.B.” — Fats Domino
I’ve worked since I was sixteen years of age. I was the oldest of seven children and my father was a laborer and one day he nearly had his foot cut off and the company only gave us $25.00 per week to live on.
I served in the U.S.M.C. for eight years and then worked in law enforcement for 20 years when I was injured in the line of duty I received $532. per month and that came from our own pension fund.
I later was able to go back to work and I joined the Coast Guard and now I’m retired because of the original injury disabled me again. I’m trying to put my daughter through college and she was put at the back of the line and had a very difficult time getting grants for school while others went to the front of the line. Now I’m living on Social Security Disability which comes to a little over $700. per month. I still have a mortgage to pay, doctors bills, medicines that I can’t afford to purchase thanks to the Billion dollar Pharmasuiticles corporations and I can’t even drive my old car a 1995 Chevy P-U to the food store because I can’t afford the $3.15 cents for a gallon of gas. I’ve knocked on every door available and have been turned down. I fought for this country many times and this is the way I get treated. I’m about to loose my house and become a street person because of I can no longer pay for my homeowners insurance and I can’t sell my house because thanks to Washington D.C. my house now isn’t worth what I owe one it.
There is certainly something horribly wrong with this country which I love when immigrants, illegal aliens etc. have everything given to them and now I will be on the street soon maybe allowed to sleep in my fifteen year old truck.
Thank You,
Oooooh, let me have Sharon’s address. I was laid off and haven’t found a job yet and need a place to live. Her place is way better than I could find in my hometown on minimum wage.
The place to start cleaning up this mess is to pass a law that would take away the right to vote of any citizen who had been a recipient of welfare in any form in any 12 months prior to any election. That would quickly eliminate the “bleeding hearts” that use the blood of working individuals to buy votes from those who want nothing more than life to be FREE. If people can’t be fiscally responsible for themselves, why should they have any say in how our tax dollars are spent? That isn’t a racist attitude, that is something called being accountable!
Wow, I’m impressed with so many humorless people that just can’t take a joke! Now, lets all just shake our heads real hard & try to clear our a few cobwebs.
This is not a RACIAL thing, nor is it a GENDER thing, not is it a FINANCIAL thing, nor is it an EQUALITY thing. Just simply put the “D” and “R” test to it, and you’ll find that everybody with this mentality and means of support will put their “X” in the “D” (for Democrat) box 98.9% of the time. The others couldnh’t readd or understand the “ballot”.
If you really are interested in stopping this sort of abuse of the system, then I have a good sound suggestion – - – JUST STOP VOTING DEMOCRAT. Shutting this off would choke off the source of new DEMOCRAT VOTERS.
My brother-in-law bought a new home, mortgage, insurance and taxes in Houston. In the same sub-division, the Katrina “refugees” are living free and tearing the hell out of the area. Crime is sky rocketing. My wife and I pay over $1200 a month for medical insurance while these free loaders get in on the dole. Go right ahead and vote democratic and you will see more of the same crap. Don’t think the Union will give a damn about you when you retire. My former employer went into bankruptcy, came out again, and we lost our pensions..rather, sent to the PBGC for 15 cents on the dollar. Where was our Union….they didn’t give a damn about us because we wern’t paying dues anymore.
While a lot of you hollar at those of us who are mad “THIS IS ONLY A HOAX OR A JOKE”, listen to this shit………………………….
The state university system of Georgia just purchased some land that public housing is on to make room for a new school and student housing. Do you know what they are doing for all of the families that live in that set of Section 8 apartments?
THEY ARE MOVING THEM INTO NEW HOMES!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I had to fight with a loan office and a bank to get my home. I had to prove I was working and making the amount of money I said I was making (which is below poverty level even though I work 50 – 60 hours a week).
These people DO NOT work and are getting a free home. It makes me want to puke.
While the article is a joke (SEE ALSO SATIRE!!!), the sad fact is that most of it is all too TRUE!!!
We are not mad that the article is a joke. We are mad that some parts of it are true in every state in the U.S.
Why are we not shipping any illegal immigrants (they are criminals) back to their country and then making the welfare recipients work?! I knew a police officer once who went on a domestic call. In filling out the woman’s info, he asked what she did as a job, and she said, “I got two kids.” He asked her again and got the same answer. That is their answer, just keeping having kids and getting more money. I hope everyone who is complaining is calling their representative and demanding an end be put to this nonsense!
I Sincerely hope that this whole thing is a joke. I am so fed up with all of this talk of oppression and no oportunity! I live in Houston, and we, more than any other city, have seen the flood of Katrina evacuees come to our city. Our mayor and city tried to do the right thing by setting up temporary housing for all of these evacuees. I don’t think that will ever happen again. Do you realize that to this day (2/27/08), we still have Katrina evacuees here who are complaining that their government checks are about to stop coming in, and they don’t know how they are going to survive. Hmmmm…. Here’s a thought….. Get a frickin job like the rest of us!!!
My wife and her family came here from Vietnam in 1975 with what they had on their backs and couldn’t even speak English. They had almost no government help and nobody else to rely on. But through hard work and determination, lets look at how they are doing today:
Father-in-law: Owns a vietnamese newspaper in Arlington, TX
1st sister-in-law: Optometrist who owns her own practice
2nd and 3rd sisters-in-law: Popular Vietnamese singers.
My Wife: Works for a large international petrochemical company downtown and does very well.
No other country in the world offers more opportunity for those who are willing to work for it. The problem that we have in the U.S. is that there are many millions of people here that are content to just get by on what the government gives them. And unfortunately, they are reproducing faster than the people who are actually working for a living. The most disturbing part of this is that many of them are having 9 or more kids just because they know that they will get more government aid for having more children.
Okay, I’m going to stop my rant. My blood pressure is probably through the roof now.
You realize Mitt Romney would have fixed this, have you seen the mormon welfare system, even the “disabled” people work jobs they are physically able to do. Everyone works. There is no free ride and no one stays in the system for ever. As they enter it, a game plan is made with them to get them out and they have to work to recieve benifits. They don’t have food stamps they have a store house and the food there is good. Not amazing just healthy food you have to prepare no prepackaged stuff or fancy cearals and believe me you get tired of it fast! They help you get what you need to get by and do what they came to help you get on your feet quickly. They have job interview training and resume making and help you with Job searches and make sure you have something nice to wear to your interview, (from their 2nd hand store of course.) You get a Job, there goal is not to have anyone on the system more then a month and definately not beyond six months if there are extenduating cercumstance. That is what the U.S. needs to adopt.
Maybe she should have to be a door greeter at wal mart, and the two week vacation, ha…..her whole life has been a vacation at the hands of working people, get a life, get a job, and get your a**e* of of welfare
I sure wish someone would hand me over all the stuff that Sharon DIDN’T have to work her whole life for! For generations my family has worked hard for the things that we have gotten, which isn’t much , but at least we work for the things we get! But, i guess she thiks she is owed these things for the way her ancestors were treated 100′s of years ago, right? Why don’t we all just take up a collection for Sharon so she can move to a better house and hopefully even buy herself a car to cruise around in!
How do we stop these “giveaways”? Her case is an insult to the working American family. We WORK FOR ANYTHING WE BUY.
THIS HAS GOT TO CHANGE!!!!
I was curious as to whether this was true myself, so I went to SNOPES and found the article. The pictures of the bathroom, wine cellar, and dining room are NOT true. The picture of her in her living room is, complete with wide screen TV IS true. Amazing!
Now my comments, it is a disgrace to this country to have people like her milking the system for money. I am not black, but I raised my 3 boys alone often working 2 & 3 jobs to accomplish this. I did not get any help from their fathers, nor did I take handouts,and sit on my a$$ complaining that I deserve more!! I do own my own home, pay ALL my utilities and UP KEEP on said home. I live paycheck to paycheck and still work 2 jobs. How is the government helping me? At least I’m trying!!! (and doing a pretty darn good job too)
What galls me is that she’s probably eating much better than we ever did (she sure doesn’t look like she’s starving does she?) and probably has a new car handed to her every few years (my Jeep is now 12 years old).
The fearless leaders in Congress need to wake up and smell the coffee, year after year it gets worse and worse. When will it end? When will they inforce the supposed ‘rules’ of welfare? It was my understanding that this was just a stepping stone until you get back on your feet, since when (and where is it written) that you can live off the government (AND THE TAXES THAT MY HARD WORKING A$$ CONTRIBUTE) for more than 40 years????
Working 2 – 3 jobs though it’s hard for me to keep up with all the rules and regulations.
Susan, you are correct. Mitt Romney would have done something about this garbage. Maybe in another 4 years he’ll have another chance. Welfare for work is another good idea. Let the people that want to stay home take care of the children of the ones that want to work and better themselves. No work, no $. There are lots of other things they can do, too. Scrub the floors of the Welfare Office. That would hurt their “self-image”, couldn’t do that. Of course there are some that are unable to work but not many. Thank the bleeding heart liberal democrats for getting the U.S. in this mess!
Sharon, you are one greedy, stupid leech. I should live in the squalor that you do!
Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson are a curse on the U.S., too.
I have three comments.
1.Give Sharon a six month’s notice to get a job and find
another apartment.
2.Fire the government official who permitted Sharon to
continue like this.
3.True corporate love requires that every action possible be
taken to help the recipient improve him or herself.
This article and Lady ( I use the term loosely ) should be the subject of national debate on a Cnn talk show.
Kindly submit this to National News for National scrutiny as soon as possible. And lets get to the bottom of the problem and those responsible before our next Presidential Election. Something they should be talking about Now !
Why is everyone up in a tizzy? We all should pay our fair share to those less fortunate. According to Hillary and Obama, we are all rich, and winners of life’s lottery. We lucked out, and didn’t really work hard and earn our way. Married couple joint income of $75,000 makes us all “rich”. So let’s be thankful that us rich people can and should contribute and sacrafice even more. I for one, can’t wait for November. When the Dem’s win, I will get to contribute even more to Sharon, so that maybe she could trade up to plasma and the full menu of cable/dish programming. God Bless.
Why not follow the Jamestown, Va. colony example? If those people didn’t work, they didn’t eat. I used to purchase Christmas cards from the “Foot and Mouth” artist. These people were paraplegics or quadraplegics, yet they were still attempting, and succeeding, to be functional members of society.
Meanwhile, I juggle perscriptions to try and clear my head so I can work and take pain pills all day long and dread the approach of disability because I know it will take me a minimum of THREE YEARS to attempt to get the disability insurance payments that I have paid into for over 30 years of work. Because, you know, all of us who wind up on disability just love the idea of getting a salary of about 30% of what we could make if we continued working. And that’s not even mentioning the 2 years you have to wait to be eligible for Medicare Insurance. Yeah, that’s right. Once you are declared disabled you are supposed to live for 2 years on a substandard income with no medical insurance. Sure, I only spend 5,000 a year on medical bills WITH insurance. I’m sure I’ll have no trouble paying my medical bills while on that pittiable disability income I qualify for.
This is so disheartening, and it just never changes. It just gets worse. Wish I lived in a nice place like that with beautiful hardwood floors and that huge state of the art television, my whole family would love.
I believe in working. Been working since I was 16 years old. I am now 48, living in an apt, late on the rent every month, pay my bills just in time to avoid cut off. Am hounded by bill collectors daily. I am ready for bankruptcy. We work. We scrape. We do without. We are thankful for all that we have. We are thankful for our healthy children and granddaughter, that live with us, to help them get on their feet. My youngest daughter is starting college the end of March. Just the calculator she bought yesterday was $130.00. required for her math classes. Somehow we will make it and in 5 yrs and 3 months by the grace of God, she will have her Masters and be an elementary teacher. I have gone without my bifocals for 4 yrs because I don’t have the money to get them. Period. I just watched my husband go thru the winter months in tennis shoes, working outside, he did get a new pair about a month ago for $9.00 at Walmart. Need more now, they are all ripped out. I could go on & on, and guess what. We are happy. We are tired. We are thankful. We are blessed. We are hopeful and have dreams and I believe we will reach them. We are on no type of assistance, and don’t want to be. They would probably say we aren’t eligible because we make too much money. The corruption is so deep and so widespread. I am very disgusted with ALL of this. And the illegal immigrant problem too. Same thing. And yes, if we as ‘white’ make any reference to their heritage, we are called racist. Where is the United White College Fund ? ETC….
Boy am I worried about Sharon…..I hope she loses everything in her “section 8″ housing. I should live so “fine”. Who does she think she is? And she passed down her lazy-assed ideals to her children? Is this what the American economy is being reduced to? I hope not. I have family members who are section 8 property managers. Their properties DO NOT look like this. Section 8 is supposed to be a bridge for those attempting to better themselves and who are having financial difficulties w/housing. I understand the hardships that are out there. I used to be white trash until I put MYSELF through school/college. All of these people (white/black/yellow/etc) have the same opportunities as the rest of us. I firmly believe that the only prejudiced people are black. If they stop fitting the profile, then maybe the world will stop profiling.
[...] Welfare – it ain’t what it used to be Welfare – it ain’t what it used to be Sharon Jasper has been victimized. Sharon Jasper has been rabidly wronged. She has become a Section 8 carcass, "the victim" of ever changing public housing policies. Sharon Jasper has spent 57 or her 58 years dedicated to one cause and one cause only, and has nothing to show for her dedicated servitude. She has lived in Section 8 housing all but 1 of her 58 years. It was a legacy passed down from her parents who moved into Section 8 housing in 1949 when she was six months old. She has passed the legacy down to her children, but fears they may have to get jobs to pay for the utilities and deposits. She laments about her one year hiatus from the comfort of her Section 8 nirvana, ‘ I tried it for a year..you know working and all. It’s not anything I would want to go through again, or wish on anyone in my family, but I am damn proud of that year.’ Sharon was moved out of her St. Bernard housing project after hurricane Katrina and into a new, yet albeit, substandard quarterage. As can be noted from the above photo of her new Section 8 home, it is *****nant and not suitable for someone of Sharon Jasper’s seniority status in the system. ‘Don’t be fooled by them hardwood floors,’ says Sharon. ‘They told me they were putting in scraped wood floors cause it was more expensive and elegant, but I am not a fool "that was just a way to make me take scratched up wood because I am black. The 60 inch HD TV? It may look nice but it is not a plasma. It’s not a plasma because I’m black. Now they want me to pay a deposit and utilities on this dump.’ ‘Do you know why?’ She has held her tongue in silence through the years of abuse by the system, but it came to a head at the New Orlean’s city council meeting where discussions were under way about the tearing down of the St. Bernard projects. When a near riotous exchange between groups opposing the tearing down of St. Bernard and groups wanting the dilapidated buildings torn down and newer ones built, Sharon unleashed verbal hell with her once silenced tongue. The object of her oratory prowess was an acquiescent poor white boy in attendance. The context of her scathing rebuke was, ‘Just because you pay for my house, my car, my big screen and my food, I will not be treated like a slave!’ and ‘Back up and Shut up! Shut up, white boy! Shut up, white boy!’ Recapping from the mental log of the city council minutes in her head, Sharon repines, ‘Our families have been displaced all over the United States. They are being forced to commit crimes in cities they are unfamiliar with. It is a very uncomfortable situation for them. Bring them back, then let’s talk about redevelopment.’ Sharon directs the reporter’s attention across the street to Duncan Plaza where homeless people are living in tents and states that, ‘I might do better out there with one of these tents.’ She further lamented her sentiments about her situation,’ I might be poor, but I don’t have to live poor. The Source [...]
I also agree with #49; and, #87 good for you. The problem with out government is they don’t care. They are going to do what they want to do and nuts to the rest of us. These CEO’s that are racking up the money hand over fist don’t care either. It’s like the old saying “the more they get, the more they want.” We are just little peons to them. They say write to you congressmen, your senators and your representatives. I’ll almost bet, and I’m not a betting person, they don’t even read them. If you send them an e-mail they probably have hired someone who just sits there and presses the “delete button” when one comes in. We have been sold a bill of goods.
Yes, I agree that some people need to be on welfare; but, give them a time limit to find a job or find one for them. Like the Governor of California did, many-many years ago, make them pick up their welfare checks at the employment office. It took a whole bunch of people off of welfare that didn’t belong.
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Some minor embellishments have been applied, but the element of truth is alive and well.
Link: http://www.snopes.com/politics/satire/jasper.asp
I am so thankful that I was able to raise my own children by accepting, gratefully, the aid that my state gave me. I was able to see to their needs without leaving them with strangers, and had it been necessary for me to work at a minimum wage job, we’d have had NOTHING!! The childcare alone would have been more than I could afford. When all the welfare laws changed, I opted to DO childcare for others who were working at low income jobs, and the state paid me a whopping $1.03 per hour for each child. They would only allow me to have six children, so, while it afforded me the opportunity to stay home and finish raising my own brood, it was very limited income. However, with budgeting, we made ends meet (sometimes with a little flap hanging over at the end of the month), and when my youngest turned 18 I was cut off of medical (which had kept me alive) and I quit childcare and went into the job force. I worked at several minimum wage jobs, then was able to find the job I now have (I am nearly 67 years old now) with benefits, so that I could get back on my thyroid and blood pressure medications. I now supplement my paychecks with social security, which is not even close to enough to survive on. My point is this………I did accept welfare, but am eternally grateful that it was there for a divorced mom of six who couldn’t bear to leave her children with strangers who might abuse them. All of my kids are hard working, with families of their own. It probably would have cost the system more to pay for childcare for them than it cost to pay our stipend every month, and my kids were raised with values. Not one of them is on Welfare today. Those who say that welfare is intended to KEEP people down are right, but it’s a no-win situation when you are a mom of so many, stuck in a small town with the bread winner having removed himself from the area forever. People like Sharon do exist, and it’s sad, but it’s a shame to expect the government to abolish welfare and Section 8 altogether because of people like her. They should be monitored better, and removed from the roles when they are no longer in need. Thankfully, they are in the minority.
Grandma of 17
Its a disgrace some of these people living on welfare like they do. Im a single 36yr mother, with the same job for 16 yrs. The only welfare I had was medicade when I was pregnant too help me with the medical expenses that my insurance didnt pay for it. It not easy working my butt off for the little pay I do get and struggle too pay the bills I do have. I struggle every day, but Im happy im out there working and not living off everyone else.. The government needs to wise up and get these users off their butts and out working or make them live out in tents!! Then you have these that have 3 to 5 kids so they can keep living on welfare that is a shame also!! I work for Walmart and its not only blacks its the whites that abuse the system also!! See these people come in with rings on every finger, 4 earings in each ear, driving a brand new Mercedes and they hand you a food stamp card!! That makes me sick!!!
I went to snopes.com. Yes my hard working Americans, this is true. Not the wine cellar or big table, but yes the picture of Sharon with her hard wood floors and big screen TV is true. I am a Louisiana WHITE BOY! And my family all are WHITE FOLKS from Jefferson Parish! You know what? It don’t matter what color we are or Sharon is. ANYONE abusing the system like Sharon has should be jailed, and have to pay it all back!!!! What gives her the right to whine and complain, when she’s had a free ride from a SHORT TERM PROGRAM ALL HER LIFE? Sharon is a sorry ass excuse for a human being, no matter what color she is. She can be purple as far as I care, she needs to be jailed and sued for blantently abusing the system, and then bragging about it for all the world to see. Where does Sharon live, I’ll personally had her the summons to court! Why should my hard earned tax dollars support this kind of Louisiana trash? Thats right, I’m from Louisiana too! This is so sad its sickening, but we all know, there are so many more proud Sharons out there, doing the same thing! They all need to be corralled and put on work duty cleaning the streets or toilets for the length of time they have abused the system!
Take that Sharons! All of you!!!!
Dave in Honolulu.
Satire is a form of speech used to uncover deceit and corruption. Look up the definition.
You seem to imply that some thing stated satirically is not true; and that is untrue.
This crap goes on everywhere! I live in Ky and let me tell you we get all kinds of ridicule about being hillbillies. This Sharon story is one of what … millions? This goes on because we allow it to! I work and have since I was 16. I also teach my kids to work. If the Govt. would put a limit on these leaches like Sharon and make their sorry asses get a job after a year of drawing funds this would stop! Work or starve! She definetly doesn’t look hungry. As far as racism goes it is the people of color that usually are the first to accuse it. I mean do we (the whites) have WET TV? No but we have BET TV.? Thats just one example. Whatever! If this is what it takes to live free of debt in the US NO THANKS ! I would rather be a hard working hillbilly in Ky vs. a debt free leach like these people .
They’re everywhere!!! What can you/we do??? Get out and VOTE,,,change has to come from the top otherwise we’ll have a revolution. sooner or later. America is losing the “middle class”…we have the poor on welfare and the rich with the loopholes.
dam what a shame,somebody bring her family back to new orleans so they can commit crimes in at own they are familiar with.
You know how you beat these people you feel are abusing the system? You vote, you attend city and neighborhood meetings, you become involved and you ignore them completely. Websites like this do not do anything but spread hatred.
Worry about yourself and those you love. Love everyone you can and be the best example of humankind.
Evolve yourself first.
Making yourselves upset at this type of thing; that has been going on forever, will only make your quality of life worse, it will not change anything, at least not in this context or medium.
I agree; its wrong what people in these positions are doing, but its also wrong what people in our positions are doing, spreading the hate; though this time, spreading it from the other end of the spectrum.
How different are you than Sharon?
Before you answer that, think about it thoroughly. I am not talking about you working or not working or being a good provider or paying your taxes (that is all material, and in the end material will get you nothing but a fancey casket).
I am talking about your hate feeding off of people like Sharon’s Hate.
Who do you think is worse off in the long run? Someone like Sharon; living day in and day out with hate in her heart for her fellow man, or someone who sees this, and tries to change their world from within through love? I mean isn’t; that the test we are all taking in this life?
Do you really think this life is just a dress rehearsal?
Even an atheist can see the reasoning here. Especially an atheist.
Worry about yourself and love those around you. Let Sharon take care of Sharon. Believe it or not, things even out in the end. Can you really say there is night without day? Of course not. Day is only relevant and makes any sense at all when there is such a thing as night. Good is only good in contrast to evil. Without Night, day does not exist, wiothout evil there is no good. It is what it is.
Everything is relevant and necessary.
We are all apart of the big “Even Steven”.
Making yourself upset at this type of thing; that has been going on forever, under one face or another, will only make your quality of life worse in the end. It will not change Sharon or those that support Sharon.
But listen to these words – - it will change you.
I agree; it’s wrong, but it is more wrong what people in our positions are doing, because we unerstand the difference.
We are spreading the hate; but this time, from the other end. If we do this, we are no better in our actions than Sharon is with the comments “jimbyrd” says were made.
If you see these behaviors confront it, but do not combat it at the cost of your own “moral” self.
Because if you do, you will lose; every time.
There are far more of them, than there are of you.
“Be the change you wish to see in the world.” ~Gandhi
Not Typically Concerned.
MPLS MN
Hey folks! Get used to it. Soon all middle classs will be on section 8; at least you now know what your comfort levels will be!
I have seen this welfare fraud from coast to coast! Welware began with good intentions, but they made 3 major mistates:
1. It should have term limits (1 year maybe).
2. You should only be allowed to draw for up to 2 children. If you want to have 15, the rest are on you.
3. All able-bodies should be required to work!
Is it possible to fix it now? I think it would be like trying to put the Genie back into the bottle!
Alexander Hamilton had a good idea when he said only property owners could vote! If that idea had prevailed, we wouldn’t have any democrats in office.
Better country, better world!
Whether this is “all” true or not, it is a disgrace. my husband and i bust our asses and pay more in taxes each year than some people make! all to feed, cloth, and house people like sharon. It’s a sad world that allows people like her to get paid to stay home and do nothing or to have babies. i think all those being supported completely by us hard working taxpayers, (the women) should be required to receive the (birth control) IUD implant to prevent any births until they have been off of the “system” and are supporting themselves. Once they have held a job for at least 6 months, then the implant can be removed. i’m sick to death of going to work ill or watching my husband drive over an hour each way to go to work, just so lazy ass people can do nothing, but sit at home and bitch. The random drug testing is a great idea, i have to submit to it at random for my job, why shouldn’t they? things need to change, but it sadly won’t, b/c the people who are at home with nothing to do have all the time in the world to go stand in line to vote for the favorite politician who will keep steaks in their freezer, nikes on their feet, and a caddy in the driveway.
The types of programs that allow this type of abuse will continue as long as:
1) People on the program are allowed to vote – (Definition of special intrest)
2) People running for office are out of touch with mainstream America, or self-serving to the point of appealing to the “Sharon’s” of the country.
This is a complex issue / problem and will require a complex solution. We can no more jerk the rug out from under the “Sharon’s” of the country (and their kids / grandkids) than we can just pack up and leave Iraq. However, we need a strategy and program that moves people off of gov’t assistance and into the work force. And truly separates the needy from the lazy.
In order to get benefits you should have to work, whether it’s the benefits of a salary for working for an employer, or the benefits of a gov’t check for picking up trash.
Maybe there is something to be said about ‘debtor’s prisons’…
So, here I am. A hard working american white male. I work 3 jobs. My wife also works full-time. We have two kids, 4 and 1, both in day care. Last year, my wife and I made approximately 50 thousand dollars. We have a modest 1200 square foot home that we have paid less than 40K for, a 2004 automobile and I drive a 1988 automobile. After daycare, car payment, house payment, light bill, water, telephone, insurance, gas driving back and forth to worketc. there ain’t much (if anything) left. Why is it that the folks who don’t do jack get free housing, monthly checks, etc while the folks who are working people who make just enough to make ends meet can’t get a break? Don’t you think I’d LOVE to let the Government make a house payment or pay a light bill or two? I work for a living. My wife works for a living. We, like most hard working Americans, don’t want a hand out from the government, but would LOVE for a little help every now and then. If this money wasn’t being leeched by those who refuse to do the right thing, they might just could do that. It’s time for the Government to kick the folks who refuse to work to the street and FORCE them to get a job. I’m sure there should be some exceptions to the rule… but I get tired of seeing a woman with 5 kids living in free housing driving an Escalade! Anybody with me?!
I don’t get it. I work two jobs to keep my family afloat in a 2 bedroom apartment. She can gripe about a big screen tv and hardwood floors???? Ungrateful pain in the butt. If it weren’t for people like that the government wouldn’t be in debt nearly as bad and I wouldn’t be handing over a third of my check to Uncle Sam to help pay for MISS THINGS TV. She sucks and should be booted out on her old black butt to find a real job in the real world. Don’t know about you but I’ll never live in a house that “BAD” in my lifetime. What do you suppose us working stiffs are doing wrong?? Oh, wait I know WORKING!
I happen to live in a small town between New Orleans and Baton Rouge. We all suffered in one way or another from the Hurrican. Some alot worse than others. There were many people that came to our town and towns around us looking for housing and work. They picked up what was left of thier lives and made the best of a bad situation. But there were so many more people like this ungratful woman. It truly made us sick. It opened our eyes to the many many people that live like Sharon. These people will never go away and will never stop taking from the government until the government stops offering to give them everything they need to sit on thier butts reproducing. If the government could do just one thing to stop this terrible fraud I think before a person can get thier check or food stamp card they should have to pee in a cup on the spot in the office they drive thier cadi to pick thier check up at. If they can’t pass a simple drug test then they can’t have anything. I think it would cut down on about half of these Sharons weather they be male, femal, black or white. The cost of doing a drug screen has to be alot less than the drug addicts we support every day. Just one way we could start moving in the right direction.
most of you people who are crying about people living so well on welfair are stupid you go out and work hard every day but you do not vote. us people on welfair may not work but we do vote. so thank you keep working and dont vote so we can keep living the good life off of your dumb asses !!
Sapphire Kid
Why can’t the American people wake up and get all of these useless politicians out of office that don’t care whether they make a difference for us hard working middle class people. It is coming upon the 2008 presidential election and I think we as a nation should vote these idiots out of office once and for all.
I too have worked since I was 16 and am now 56 with a husband that is 63. We are still paying to put our youngest daughter through college which is not cheap. No one has given us anything and never will as I refuse to take something from all the hard working taxpayers of this world unlike the sharon in this article. What a joke on the American public not only in Louisiana but as many have said all over the US. Let their sorry asses go to work and stop complaining or as one person said send them to another country to live and see how that works for them!
It is time for all Americans to go to the polls and VOTE these sorry ass politicians out of office that control this nonsense. It’s easy to go cast your vote on election day and surprisingly enough if all of us did it you would probably be surprised how many crooked politicians we could get rid of.
It makes me sick to think that our US troops are fighting to keep us safe while someone like this lady sits on her fat ass regardless of what color she is (black, white, asian, etc.) It doesn’t matter she isn’t happy it matters that it is a disgrace to the American people that we have let this go on for such a long time.
I could go on about this subject forever but of course that won’t accomplish anything either. I do have to agree that not voting for Hillary or Obama is probably in America’s best interest as well as unfortunately the Democrats have done nothing for this country since day 1 and I have always been a registered democrat but no longer will I vote for them as they are not for the best interest of the American people.
Vote for the Libertarian Party this year. They want to cut Welfare and have these deadbeats rely on charities instead of the Government. See how long they last on charity alone. Bet they would stop complaining and start looking for jobs real quick!
Vote Libertarian in 2008!
What a bunch of manure, I came from Cuba 40 years ago, and have worked since the age of 11, and I would have to take away money I spend on my two daughters in order to buy a television that size.
But yet, our taxes from our hard earned money paid for hers, this is absolutely the epitome of “Insult to Injury” and lunacy.
I could go on and on with this, and it sure makes me raging mad that the taxes that are collected off of my gross income pay for this individual’s luxury, but yet has hardly ever done anything to earn it, wow what an insult.
This may be tongue in check but not too far from the truth. I’ll never forget the day in the grocery store where the woman in front of me paid for her groceries with food stamps and then proceeded to whip out her “gold” visa card to pay for the items not eligible for purchase with food stamps. I was shocked. How does someone on welfare and food stamps qualify for a gold visa card? I work hard and have since I was 16 years old. I pay taxes and I am sick and tired of my tax dollars supporting people who are able to work just as hard as I do. There are people who truely need assistance and I have no problem with that, but the ones who’s inheritance from their families is lessons on how to bilk the welfare system for all its worth really get me mad!!! Let’s come up with a way for welfare recipients to earn the subsidies they receive. Cleaning highways, community service, provide daycare for the welfare mothers so they can work…..etc, etc.