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cgod  ·  4129 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Don’t Hate on Welfare Recipients — The Real Parasites are Elsewhere

My next door neighbor has a severely autistic teenager, they mostly get by on welfare. She works odd housecleaning jobs and hustles some antiques on the side. They live pretty close to the bone.

I guess she could lock the kid in the basement and hold a 9-5, pretty sure there is no one who would baby sit the kid for an amount of money that would make holding the kind of job she is qualified for worth while.