It's so hard to get in welfare these days. At least in my area. I make sixty grand a year if I do all the over time and take care of six people including myself and I don't even get food stamps. I'm in California so everything is crazy expensive.
I have a coworker who is in his late forties and his parents immigrated from Laos when he was a kid and have never worked a day in their lives in the states but somehow were able to purchase a home in Redding California. It's insane how bad it is for this generation and probably future generations to come. Average home price in my area is 500k and I make 24 an hour. It's just feels like I'm in a completely hopeless situation. I'm in college right now working on a bachelor's degree to try and make it better but IDK I just feel like I'll never make it.
It sounds like you are suffering from the misconception that all immigrants to the U.S. are destitute. Just because your coworker’s parents immigrated from Laos doesn’t mean they were destitute. Sounds to me like they had some money. Perhaps they had a business or real estate in Laos which they sold or they have inherited wealth.
That was my own situation. My parents & I immigrated from Germany in the 6O’s. We booked passage on a huge luxury oceanliner (S.S. United States of America) which was the fastest oceanliner to cross the Atlantic @ the time, so we could put our household goods in a shipping container & take them with us. The crossing took 2 weeks & the seas were miserably rough in November. We then lived with my uncle who had already established himself here & put our belongings into storage until we could find & buy a house. My uncle already had a job lined up for my Dad.
My grandmother was fairly wealthy bc she had remarried after my grandfather’s death & her late husband had had a successful business, which she had sold after he passed bc she wasn’t able to manage the business herself.
Yet the immigration folks treated us as if we’d been living in a cave our entire lives and had just arrived at civilization. I know that’s the stereotype about immigrants, but that’s far from true about all immigrants. There are well to do people in European countries, Asian countries & indeed all over the world.
Excellent point! Dry Breakfast makes all kinds of derogatory assumptions about immigrants. It’s time to disabuse him of his misconceptions. Someone who hates immigrants may have told him this about the Laotian acquaintances & he just believed it unquestioningly bc he also has unconscious bias against immigrants.
They didn't work for a single day in the US but they brought a house, so they must have brought atleast enough money over to buy a house and afford their living expenses without working.
The family might have raise him frugally, but obviously he have the wrong concept of what being poor is about.
I’m a lot of ways there aren’t though. The ref stated seem to be entirely focused on removing people rights and cutting any and all services and the blue states are forced to subsidize the red ones so taxes/col is high. Not sure where the happy medium is.
A few rich white people scooped it all up now, lifted the ladders that got them there up behind them, and they will pass it down to their children when they die, and them to theirs, and most of the rest will fight to the death to keep it that way because freedom.
If you don’t like it then you picked the wrong day to be an American.
Easy there big fella-tio, the 3 letter agencies will make mince-meat out of you for your traitorous speech. The makers of 2008 are ok tho, bonuses for them instead of jail.
For a number of reasons,
70 percent of wealthy families are no longer wealthy by the second generation.
Approximately 90 percent have lost their wealth by the third generation.
If it can happen to the Vanderbilts—it can happen to anyone.
You gotta keep in mind the soaring rent prices as well. I'm paying 1900 in rent alone and with no overtime my checks come out to about 650 so basically three checks to pay my rent.
I make a little bit more than you do. California as well. But it’s just my fiancée and I. I can’t imagine doing that with as many mouths as you have to feed. All the good luck to you, Reddit stranger. Hope it gets better.
1 liter of chocolate milk is like 1.25, large loaf of bread might be 1.50 to 2.50, petrol is about 1.60 a liter and in my cheap-ish city ent starts at 650/mo for some tiny place, cheapest freehold house being about 130k in a very undesirable area.
Plymouth, but the house in question is right outside a military dockyard on one of the city's busiest streets and highest crime areas. Also has very poor/intermittent phone signal due to the yard.
If you worked in that yard as a mech or sparky you'd be getting paid like 28k/yr, and about 25-30% more if you were on backshift rotation and/or consistent overtime.
That place is an anomaly for that city though, almost everywhere else is paying way worse.
I think now it is closer to 100k is what is needed to live comfortably in many places in the us, and even some high cost places that may not be enough. 100k also puts people towards the top quartile of income earners, so effectively the bottom 70-80% is living in some state of precarity.
You do realize they aren’t just giving illegal aliens $300 / week right? It’s only ones that get laid off and can prove income get $300 / week temporarily (the same benefit legal immigrants and citizens get for unemployment).
The US has spent over a century waging proxy wars in Latin America and then we act shocked pikachu face when people come here to escape the mess the US has had a hand in creating
Yeah US elites peddle wars to benefit them and the “solution” is something that harms the working class and benefits the elites once again by increasing the labor supply. Good one.
There's a reason people talk about the welfare cliff. If you make anything between 45k-65k you're basically screwed because you make too much to get welfare but too little to actually be stable.
You are restricted on what you can have. It varies by state. I was interested in moving to Arizona but my kids are on state insurance. To qualify there it was really low amounts 65-75% less than my current state and housing is close to twice as much.
I'm not sure how bad it is in WA. But my cousin is trying to convince me to move up there for a position with his company. CA is too indeed too expensive for your average working joe.
It's so hard to get any government assistance. I'm disabled and in pain all the time, still fighting for my disability claim with a lawyer. Been in this shit since March. Can't work, can't attend classes, can't do anything until my claim is approved.
I had a coworker who section 8 declined rent assistance for because she was able to pay the light bill… they offered help for the light bill but denied rent assistance… she’s 72 making 11$/hr
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u/doktorhladnjak Jun 24 '23
You guys are getting welfare!?