I hear ya. Well not the running part, because I don't wanna. But, yeah, this election is going to suck.
How things have changed in wellfare in the last 40 years.
Had an acquaintance in Cal. back in the early 1970's that I drove to a wellfare office to apply for help. Her Hubby ran off leaving her with I think it was 5 kids. At that time she had to produce her birth certificate, her drivers license and bring not only the kids but their birth certificates. She had to have proof of her address and it boggled my mind when they finally allowed her $120.00 a month in food stamps.
That was it, no money for the kids and their father did not help support them.
Jump into the future, Darn near the same situation this time in VA. 1984-5----next door to me lived a woman who was at least 60 years old. Her daughter and 2 kids moved in with her. Here I go again trying to help when asked, took them all to welfare to see how the family could be helped.
That was a real mess, for one thing they were white folk and this was in a neighborhood 75% black. When told that the kids father was long gone the woman asked why their grandmother did not get a job to help out. Not one word was said about the Mother getting a job.----They got NOTHING.
Today things must be very different if Illegals can get food stamps and money to support their children when the father will not help.
Then the question of how people that come to this country as refuges from
Asia and after 2 years here living with family can get #SS.
I am beginning to understand why people don't get married anymore. There are more advantages for a woman to stay single when she has children, when Hubby runs off, her children get little. As a single Mom, at least the kids get some kind of support from the State.