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Replies: 24Last Post June 19, 2012 10:22pm by JennyColada
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Even if we're all broke, you should thank America, you wouldn't be on this here today if it wasn't for us.

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do give me a history lecture on how america is relevant to australia.
we were founded by the british.

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Quote: from oh hi at 11:02 pm on June 19, 2012

do give me a history lecture on how america is relevant to australia.
we were founded by the british.

As were we, but an American(s) also invented the internet.

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im broke? news to me. oh welllll

idk about in australia, but in the U.S. people just sell their foodstamps and shit. classyyyyy

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It's EBT, not food stamps you idiot. And you can't sell them anymore. At least, it would be some what difficult sense It's a card, and if you were caught shit would get real, real fast.

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Quote: from Aero360 at 10:39 pm on June 19, 2012

Quote: from oh hi at 10:30 pm on June 19, 2012

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note: we are talking about australian welfare and not america cause everyone's broke in america, no matter what


This is an incorrect statement.

In America, we're all on our cell phones, expensive laptops with high speed Internet, watching HD TV, eating at nice restaurants and drinking semi-expensive alcohol, and going, "omg we're so broke."

Ridiculous.  People just "feel" stressed about the economy, even though life, at least for most people I know, is very well.  And people just seem to complain about small, mundane and irrelavent things.

I don't know a single person who's actually been hit THAT hard by the current economy.  We had to cut back on coffee, ooooh so terrible


its killing me. i went from taking in about 2400-3200.00/month to 0.00-300 a month. and i rarely see 300.00 . theres no work here. i even applied at mcdonalds...

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one american proved wrong by another american.
excellent.

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Quote: from oh hi at 12:25 am on June 20, 2012

one american proved wrong by another american.
excellent.

it all depends on geographic location...i live in the middle of fucking nowhere.so theres no work within any driving range...im just one of the rare cases.

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Quote: from Anonymice at 8:27 am on June 20, 2012

It's EBT, not food stamps you idiot. And you can't sell them anymore. At least, it would be some what difficult sense It's a card, and if you were caught shit would get real, real fast.

If you were caught doing what?  What I get on my EBT every month is just over a week's worth of food to use over a month.  Sometimes I send someone on an errand to buy something with my EBT card and as long as they have my PIN they're sold the item, even though I'm not present.

And to answer the original question but only using the United States as an example, people on welfare at least in this state of New Mexico manage do have nice things because they're probably also working a home-based job, not reporting it, and collect their welfare check.  Extra jobs because the welfare doesn't really pay a reasonable amount to live on, and for tax purposes.

No one can tell me here in the U.S. what I can or cannot use welfare money or social security money for once it's deposited in my account.  That being said, a lot of us do spend it on guns, drugs, and liquor (the luxuries), and use a day job for paying for day-to-day living.

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Funny, because during this recession I got offered multiple jobs without even applying, I got many raises, and have a better salary (and position) than before the recession.

Definitely helps to have good connections and not have to help on luck of the draw.

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