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Do you think that I wanna be on welfare
Oct 09, 2012 | 3272 views | 4 4 comments | 15 15 recommendations | email to a friend | print

Dear Editor,

Day by day goes by, yet I’m still looking for a job.

People that I know, and some that kind of do drugs and are drunks, yet they can get by with jobs. They’re drawing two to three different kinds of unemployment at the same time and get away with it.

But with a simple girl like me, that has two small children, not doing drugs or drinking, nor drawing unemployment, can’t find nothing.

I just don’t get how the state or the government let this stuff get by. Even places that say, “We drug test.” Apparently, they don’t because Rockingham is a very small town and I know a lot of people and see them get by with a drug test, or the managers don’t have a care at all.

Believe it or not, it’s non-sense and it’s crazy how they can’t even get caught. Do you think that I wanna be on welfare and child support? No, I don’t. I wanna be able to find a job and support my children the right way, not be on food stamps or Medicaid or spending my child’s little bit of money to make ends meet. Just sucks because the people that are doing wrong are taking all our jobs and it’s not right.

Tia McLaughlin

Rockingham

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October 12, 2012
Tia McLauglin, you may never see this comment, but I hope you do. I was a single mother with a high school diploma and when my son was less than a year old, I went to RCC on a Pell Grant and through the help of that Pell Grant, I was able to get a 2-year degree, free of charge. So basically, I received 2 years of FREE education. I had one child at 19 and common sense told me that I had ABSOLUTELY no business with the one I had because I really could not support him without my parents help and I DIDN't have another one until I was married and had a WORKING husband who could help be support my son and the one we had together. I went back to school and got my 4-year degree, not free this time, and I'm still paying on my student loans. The difference this time is now I have a really good job and I can afford my children. I, too, received medicaid while I was pregnant and my son was on medicaid and WIC. I said all that to say this....WHY are you not in school and taking advantage of the Pell grant system and getting an education so you can support your children. I do not understand you women who don't take advantage of that. To me that makes no sense and it's foolish not to better yourself, especially in front of your children so they too can see the importance and the value of an education. Go to school, get a job, and quit using my tax dollars AND when you do that then you can complain about what everybody else is doing wrong in the world.
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October 10, 2012
Questions I have:

1. Are you married?

2. Where is the dad?

3. Why would you bring kids in this world if you are not financially stable to take care of them?
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October 09, 2012
Tia,I see this with my eyes also.People and go get a job an not show up 3 days out of a 5 day work week,get fired and get another job the next week.If I had a job for you I would hire you in a min.I will pray that God will send you a job so you can support you and your children.Keep you head held high and do what you can and don't let anyone belittle you.
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