Reply #133: Been broke, broke again...

[griz2008]

I've been to a welfare office more than a few times in my life, and it took a five year death march to get my SSDI after 25 years of destroying my body just trying to make a living in this world.
I've done really well, and I've fallen on my butt too.

But one thing I remember clearly is after my husband passed away, and my family just couldn't take me and my son in, the welfare told us to essentially leave town (read: go away and die)and I had to appeal while trying to live in my car. in october. in Nebraska.

So, we just sat in the damned office until they either called the cops or helped us somehow.
Then we got the runaraound, promised a place to stay and a temporary room, then that was taken away after a few days (they decided we weren't suitable candidates for that program.. can I say 'what a bitch'?)
and this was all 6 years before my son forced me to apply for social security disability after I came home incapacitated (I had to take the whole day's medication to make it through a shift, then come home and cry all night.. only months after the two losses of my husband and mom)

THEN they cut off my general medical assistance, claiming that, under Subsection Made Up BS (seriously, we looked online at the policy book and no such policy listed)that my son was a year to young to be considered an adult, BUT at the SAME TIME too OLD to be considered a child (and the only source of support monetarily for us) so we weren't eligible for diddly squat, raising my medical costs to some $900 a month, which is impossible to come up with at the area's top wages (at the time about $10, although my son was too young to get that kind of job) AND pay rent, utilities and food.

BUT-- we fought and did what we had to do, and were even homeless a few times more, until today, with a broken economy and my son about 5 years behind on his education----

WE HAVE HOPE.

All we have to do is stand together, whether you live in a tent or an apartment or on a farm, rich, poor or otherwise, WE CAN CHANGE THIS HORRIBLE SYSTEM and stop the anarcho-capitalists-- woops, I mean 'republicans/libertarians'from bringing back indentured servitude, child labor and worse...

I'm not sure what to say now, but keep hope alive.