She's full of crap about who works at Walmart for the most part. My mother worked there for a while and she is not college educated and everyone she knew there had maybe 'some' college, but no degree. Most were unskilled and had high school educations at best or were retirees who wanted to earn a little part time income OR were disabled folks who evil walmart has never seemed to have a problem hiring.
Now we find out bobbolink is on ssi...sounds to me like she is refusing to retrain herself or go back to work out of fear of losing her ssi status. It's there if you look for it. The reform she wants, I think, is to be able to keep her ssi even if she returns to work at some point.
She's got a bullshit excuse for everything doesn't she? Definitely not a can do attitude. "I'm out of an apartment because it is 'polluted'." "I shouldn't have to eschew internet access and don't because it is in the library"(yes, but arguably you aren't using that FREE taxpayer access to improve your situation--you are just wasting more time sitting on it and bitching while glaring at the hustle and bustle of those around you actually living their lives and providing for themselves). "SSI doesn't pay enough" Well, you know what? It's not supposed to--it's not a retirement plan or even a full benefits disability plan. I expect that its intention was that most people get retrained for something they CAN do and SSI was to help supplement in the interim.
Bobbolink is a classic example of someone who is so mired in their own defeatism she can't accomplish anything. So many excuses...I'm thinking perhaps the payoff is in the attention she gets, even if it is negative, for being the poor cantankerous homeless woman who can't catch a break which means, yet again, another mentally ill person is sitting on skins island untreated and stuck in their own pattern of self-destruction.
For bobbolink, you aren't hurting anyone's feelings there. The only person you are hurting is your own damn self with the pity party, can't do attitude. The bottom line is everyone has to start from somewhere. You might have to live in a crappy, dingy, little apartment for a while until you put together a bit of money to get something better. You ACCEPT help when it comes and don't turn your nose up at it not being good enough. So you are on the bottom--wah--you've spent years crying about it--when it feeling sorry for yourself going to be over bobbolink and you going to start creating the life you want? Or, like I said earlier, is there something you aren't telling the people on DU about your situation? Refusing work to keep your disabled status? A work history of theft? Jail time? Being disagreeable with anyone who tries to help you out? Why are you REALLY so down on your luck?
