Just yesterday, I completed an application for snap benefits. That’s all I wanted and needed assistance with. Because I’m a part-time worker, my finances at times get strapped because I’m paying off a loan from a bank and it makes my working budgets feel a little compressed. I need some breathing room here.
I hope I get them but I never intend to be on it forever, I just need some financial security and resource assurance. I’ve always tried being a person who looked to things like this and only go to them when I needed them, not because I wanted them and mooch off from them.
Fuck no
Every paycheck for twenty plus years, I calmly and without complaint saw taxes and fica taken out of each check because that’s how you have a social safety net.
I sure as fuck didn’t pay in because I could afford it, I paid in because it’s mandatory.
So you, me, whoever, is 100% justified in using the social safety net we all paid and pay into because that’s what it’s for in the first place.
Never, ever feel guilty about it brougham.