And you are a presumptuous bitch who cannot follow the conversation properly.
You lock up poor women for a living and I have no doubt that you believe that there are many opportunities to help the poor. The statistics tell us a different story. A story that these so called opportunities aren't fucking working! Plus don't forget, it's a bare market. No matter what the politicians call this, we are in the midst of a depression, not a mere recession.
A poor mans contiki tour? Throwing hamburgers at the poor? WHAT THE FUCK? Your sarcasm may amuse you but I find it abhorrent. Perhaps you should properly read the dialogue I've had with the woman I offered to show around my neighborhood.
I don't work in welfare btw, I live amongst the poor as a poor person myself. So before you start throwing slings and poisened arrows in my direction, take a look at whom at what I'm responding to.
Wow. That was quite a spray.
First I have to say I love the fact you have dropped the passive aggressive behaviour and are going with fully blown aggressive, I find it far more direct. My pet hate is passive aggressiveness.
Now back to your post. Speaking of presumptuous little bitches that can’t follow a conversation, there are a couple of your own presumptions that we need to clear up….
Ha!
First we need to touch on my information, that you have obviously viewed and somehow jumped to all the wrong conclusions - I don’t lock up “poor women” for a living. I have already explained this to you once before, but you obviously didn’t retain it. My forum information shows that I live in a correctional facility, not work in one; it suggests I live in one as an inmate. It is a joke, that everyone else has got, but I guess some people need jokes explained to them (twice).
Your post says "you live amongst the poor as a poor person" and it saddens me that you feel you have to label yourself as a victim. I too could smother myself in 'poor me' labels, given that I am third generation welfare, who was raised in housing commission Acacia Ridge who then continued the welfare cycle and had a baby, despite having no job, no father for the baby and an expensive drug addiction to boot. Our welfare system supported me and my son for his first eight years. During this time I was made aware as to what support programs, choices and educational opportunities were available to me and I made a goal to re-educate myself and break that cycle of a welfare, which had dogged my family, and to be a role model for my son. Pop a few well-placed mentors who helped guide and advise me on the way and presto I was able to re-educate and break that cycle.
We live in a country that does its best to support the financially challenged by offering huge support. We have the PBS to help subsidise the cost of pharmaceuticals, charities to help those in dire need, as well as many support programs such as rent assistance, government housing, The Smith Family, austudy, school based scholarships, family tax payments and so on. There are also educational opportunities and workshops which are also available for socio-economically challenged Australian’s to improve employment chances and raise self-esteem and self-worth, which are completely costed and funded by the government. However, there does come a point, where you have to take responsibility for your own choices and you have to help yourself. Magic doesn’t happen and dreams don’t come true. It takes drive and dedication and sacrifice to succeed.
I have worked hard to get where I am. I have two jobs, I work as a Community Worker and a Disability Worker and I am also in my last 8 weeks of study for nursing, which I attend one day per week and I will be a registered Enrolled Nurse come December. I love the fact I am more financially secure than I have ever been, and I feel proud that I was able to take advantage of the opportunities available to me.
I have only just started travelling and in the last two years I have visited a couple of developing counties, and I learned, through their level of poverty and despair, just how lucky we are in this country to have a safety net to fall back on. There is no welfare, health system, secondary education or PBS to catch the low income when they fall. We should feel grateful to have that, not entitled. I think JFK said it best when he said “ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country”.
For the first time ever, I have a brand new car and just for the record, I FUCKING LOVE IT!
